Age Of Exploration Essay

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The Exploration age for the europeans was the way to get rich famous and make money for their mother country. With the new exploration tools that helped many explores sail to the new world and explore the land and to learn about the native people culture and how they lived. With the new knowledge of the new world introduces new threats to both the Europeans and the Natives such as disease, enslavement of people and the decimation of populations in the new world due to exploration. The age of exploration was started when christopher columbus went to the new world which he thought was india in 1492. After the first trip to the new world with Columbus there was a boom in Europe and the race to make it and explore, and colonize the new world was …show more content…

Many Christian monks would come to the new world and try to convert the native people to Catholicism in many times the natives would convert in fear for their lives and in (Document 9) The Oral History of Chief Hatuey, Chief Hatuey was captured and sentenced to burn at the stake and that day we was giving a chance to convert to Christianity by a monk and when the monk told Hatuey that once you are baptized he or she would go to heaven. Hatuey asked the monk “would the spanish go to heaven once they were baptized” and the monk replied and said yes they would if baptized, with that new info Chief Hatuey bravely replied that he would rather go to hell is the spanish would go to heaven as well. There goes to show that the natives did not like on how the spanish did things during the time and exploration in the new world. With the spaniards coming and taking over land …show more content…

In Geoffrey Cowley in the great Disease migration (Document 6) he states that there was about 40 to 50 million people living in the new world before Columbus arrived to the new world. The arrival of the european there was the arrival of germs that would cause disease which would decimate the natives killing millions of their population. That most people would die from disease and not from the sword and guns of the

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