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Was the Age of Exploration a time of discovery or invasion? Respond below. 

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Was the Age of Exploration a time of discovery or invasion? Respond below. 

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https://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/exploration/english-french-explorations.php

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The Idea of imperialism, where a country grows itself by conquering others land for it's self was a major idea in The Age of Exploration this led to many European countries funding and creating colonies in the new world however, this meant that native people would lost their own land, people, crops and culture for another country to expand itself

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https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/colonial-america/early-english-settlement/a/french-and-dutch-exploration

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The Aztecs was a mighty empire 80,000 square miles 5-6 million people the greatest of their cities Tenochtitlan was built on a salt lake and was bigger than London, Paris or Rome

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Many explorers sailed across the ocean to spread religion the prominent one was Christianity.
European sailors brought with them their own religion and tried to assimilate and force their religion on Native People. This in turn would cause for the Native People to lose not only their religion but, their own culture and traditions.

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http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/amerbegin/exploration/text2/text2read.htm

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Montezuma was the ruler of the Aztec Empire and the richest man west of the Atlantic ocean Hernan Cortes made him a hostage during the capturing of Tenochtitlan.

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The most common reason explorers when to the New World was because of greed. Many explorers ransacked and pillaged Native and Meso American civilizations some include the Aztecs, Inca, and others. Many of the explorers who committed these acts were never punished some were even rewarded as in the case of  Hernan Cortes who him and his 500 men lead to the down fall of the Aztec Empire.

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https://project.geo.msu.edu/geogmich/french_explorers.html

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The Spanish looted, burned and murdered their way though Tenochtitlan stealing anything they could find however they also brought Smallpox a disease the Aztec people had no immunity to leaving 1/2 of Tenochtitlan's population dead after 1/2 a year

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Many explorers wanted the glory of finding these tribes this could involve looting genocide or forcing religion on native people.

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https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/french-exploration-and-settlement

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Did Cortes embody the human spirit of exploration and acquisition of knowledge?

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The original way that the New World was found was looking for Spice Trade Routes however they found another land mass

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https://www.granburyisd.org/cms/lib/tx01000552/centricity/domain/287/fact_sheet_u1_comparison_of_eng_fr_sp_col.pdf

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_French_explorers
this links to explorers and where they landed

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Were the English and French any different from the Spanish when they reached the New World?

Each country had their own ideals and such but, the original British's Colonies focused on freedom of religion and farming to allow them to stay while Colonies of both the Spanish and the French were mainly cash incomes for the original countries French Colonies had the best relationships with the Native people since they had respect for the Natives. So in a nutshell each colony was different from it's Spanish counterpart.

** Also I really liked this PDF most helpful one for this topic check it out it's source 6 I liked the chart

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When the Ottoman empire stopped the spice trade between Europe and Asia many European wanted to find another route but instead of finding another rout they found new lands

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Henry the Navigator was an important figure in the Age of Exploration he used new maps and founds the Madeira islands off the coast of Africa.

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Everyone knows who Columbus is he asked for the king of Spain to fund his search for a new trading route but found the New World 500 years after Leif Erickson did.

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Were these motives and causes for exploration harmless?

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In total, no many different civilizations either lost huge amounts of their population such as in the Aztec and Mayan empires in Mesoamerica, became captured and forced into slavery like in many places in Africa, or had to convert to another religion losing their own culture as a result such as the Native Americans in the Americas. For many explorers, they were brought on by greed or to capture land for their country.

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Absolutely not Cortes embodies the human spirit of greed. While on his "expedition" he was wanted and fought and killed his way out of being taken into custody he made allies with thousands of other tribes and marched down to the second-largest city in the new world, Cholula, and slaughtered, pillaged, and burned down more than half the city as a message of fear to the incoming Tenochtitlan. After he and his men and the allied tribes marched to Tenochtitlan they then made the leader of the Aztec empire a hostage and then a great massacre happened Cortes and his men barely made it out of Mexico where they left smallpox leaving  1/2 of Tenochtitlan dead after their wake.

P.S. I really don't like Cortes and how he was awarded and never punished for his mutiny or his several massacres.

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Both, while they may have used the idea of Discovery to hide the fact that they were taking land, slaves and gold it was still discovering as they didn't know about the lands. But, I cannot in good heart say that most of the explorers sailed for acquisition of knowledge most did it for God, Gold, or Glory many forced Christianity on Native people stole Native's land for their own country and captured native people and forced them into slavery starting the slave trade. Many of the Colonies treated Natives very poorly and used them for wealth and labor.