# data[].attributes.body
Pedro Cabral is the person that discovered what we now know as Brazil. He discovered Brazil on April 22nd 1500. Pedro Cabral has also discovered east Africa, Calicut India, and Kingdom of Cochin India which means that he has discovered a total of four places.

# data[].attributes.body
Vasco de gama was the first European to travel directly from Europe to India by sea. Vasco de gama did this as an attempt to find a new trade route to Asia. He was able to do this by sailing around the southern tip of Africa.

# data[].attributes.body
Christopher Columbus was a Spanish explorer who discovered lots of new country's and continents. Christopher Columbus discovered 4 continents and 4 countries. Christopher Columbus discovered all of these places from 1492 to 1504. He was important to the Spanish exploration because he discovered the new world and found new trade routes.

# data[].attributes.body
Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer that discovered the Strait of Magellan on October 21st 1520. Ferdinand Magellan also discovered the Philippians on March 16th 1521. Finally he died on April 27th 1521 after discovering the Philippians.

# data[].attributes.body
What is a cottage industry? A cottage industry is a small manufacturing business that is usually ran in the house of the crafts person. That person is usually the company's proprietor or owner. The effect that the cottage industry had on capitalism was fostering small scale production trade and the development of skills that later fueled industrialization.

# data[].attributes.body
You might be wondering what mercantilism is but here you will learn about it in three short sentences. Mercantilism is a economic system where nations aim to increase their wealth and power by maximizing exports. They also try to minimize imports to try and profit as much as they could. The colonies existed for the economic benefit of the mother country and were useless unless they help achieve profit.

# data[].attributes.body
The age of exploration had more positives because if you discovered a new place you got to name it. Next if you were to discover a new place your country would then own it and you would become famous for discovering a new place. Finally I think that in general the age of exploration had more positives than negatives because of all the stuff that you could do if you found a new place.