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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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The picture seems to show the aftermath of a sort of dispute, and the English seem to be forcing the natives to become christian and making them hand over their riches, like the Spanish did.

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Over the past few days Cortes and his men were coming and the Aztecs got signs of this, and the conquistadors immediately attacked them.

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They could be searching for new knowledge about the world around them.
By exploring the people might encounter natives and have to fight them, causing a lot of bloodshed.

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The Queen orders her men to capture land and take away valuables from "barbaric" peoples who are not christian, just like the Spanish did to the natives.

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The Aztecs to the conquistadors at first were savages, but then they saw their creations, the giant temples, the advanced farming areas, and the multiple complex buildings, these impressive pieces of human engineering confused the conquistadors because they thought these people were savages.

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This could be their tool to keep moral up during troubled times when the traveling isn't going as planned.
The people spreading the religion might try and force their religion on others and execute them if they dont comply.

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Jacques cartier and his men contract a disease, and the natives try to help them, while the Spanish did except help they still had aggression against the Aztecs.

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The Aztecs mistook Cortes as a god because of the different technologies that Cortes had, Cortes took advantage of this, but he went to far and then he got driven out

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The wealth could help the peoples homeland with financial problems and poverty.
This gold is almost always stolen from native people and ancient memorials.

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John Smith hunted down native and hunted them while spreading fear, This is what the Spanish conquistadors did to natives in the new world.

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Cortes met a general who was supposed to bring him back and killed him and took his men, then he went back to Tenochtitlan to force the people to surrender, and won.

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They are doing this to make themselves well known others.
In doing this they might kill entire tribes just so they can be known.

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The french explorer seems to be trying to convert the people to Christianity, The Spanish did exactly this, except more brutally

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

Yes, because he did explore and gain knowledge about other cultures, its just that in some of the ways he gained knowledge were very violent, for example when in the passage it states that he held the Aztec leader for a ransom, and he slaughtered thousands.

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These are very expensive and hard to get for some people, so getting some spices to the public could make you a legend.
Some people kill to obtain these spices, and sometimes they steal these spices.

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There was a marriage between a native and an English men and they were both happy and hoped the connection would help make the two sides peaceful with each other.

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Creating trading routes could help boost the economy and add new items to peoples everyday lives.

Sometimes other countries will try to steal and or cut off trading routes.

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Henry navigated the seas so he could find new trade routes for spices and other goods.

Henry also sailed so he could stop Muslim kingdoms from spreading

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

The french and English were similar and different from the Spanish, they were similar because they did slaughter natives and pillage their homes, But different because the people sometimes got along with the natives, as in they traded with them helped each other and even got married to each other.

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Columbus started his voyages to find new trade routes to Asia.

He took in several slaves from land he had supposedly conquered.

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Were these motives and causes for exploration harmless?

No, these efforts were not always harmless, like to take over trade routes and or certain areas, you would have to kill, harm, and or enslave others to get what you want. The people that sail to these areas are almost always ready to fight and take over. In the passage it states that Columbus enslaved natives, and Henry tried to restrict Muslim kingdoms in a continent they dont have any real control in.

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The age of exploration was a time of discovery and here are the reasons why. People sailed on boats to gain knowledge on the lands beyond their known maps so they could map out the unknown territory. When these people reach the land they decided to explore what was around them and see what new materials they could obtain. It is true that some explorers would invade native territories, but they are still charting and exploring what is there. And it is also true that they did try to convert the people into Christianity, for example this is what the Spanish conquistadors did to the Aztecs and other natives.

Hernan Cortes did explore the new world in search for god, glory, and gold. He found the Aztecs who looked up to him as if he were a god so he took advantage of this so he could learn about them. He then decided to conquer them and then he discovered all of the other pieces of the Aztecs empire.