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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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I definitely think that the age of exploration was a time of invasion.  Many people invaded to conquer land. Also many people killed innocent people to get wealth for themselves. An expedition does not work like this. Harming and enslaving people with no mercy shown is ruthless and what people like Cortes did to get what he wanted. Also a lot of stealing took place. I think this Age of ¨Exploration¨ should be called the depressing age. The innocent got so much they didn't deserve but it was simply for the happiness of the non-innocent.

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Maybe this was an example of spreading religion and some of the people look like they might be converting non christians into christians.

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During Corteses journey the natives eventually gave them information that led Cortes into the Greatest Central American Civilization.
In order to get this civilization a ton of sacrifices were made between the enemy and Corteses own group.

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The motive for the Europeans conquering land was to have more and discover more, but also from what riches you could gather from these lands.
However, taking things from the people that originated in that land could end bad.
An example would be when the Ottoman Empire took over Constantinople it blocked a lot of routes and lands.

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Queen Elizabeth orders people to conquer land and convert natives to christianity.

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The city of Tenochtitlan there were many temples houses for different idols and the public infrastructure was beautiful their knowing it was the capital.
This city was so big it could be easy for any disease to spread around their.

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When you have different religious beliefs it could cause a conflict in different ways.
Everyone has there own beliefs and worship there own god.
However, say someone comes in your land and has different religious aspects, this could cause a conflict and sometimes is does not it depends on the ruler and what they think.
However religion is good and important to worship who you believe in.

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This source tells us there was a disease that spread and many soldiers died and christmas will not be normal in times like this. Also many people have gotten ill from it who are not soldiers.

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Cortes and his men eventually met Montezuma or the king of the Aztecs. Once they met him he gave them so many gifts and tons of food. However word from Cortes had reached them. Many Aztecs were suspicious about Cortes coming to their lands.

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Gold was the main riches that would get sold or bought.
Sometimes gold was so valuable it was stolen from greedy people.

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An invasion took place on Captain Smith, but luckily he was able to conquer or torture his enemies and defeated them all.

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The Spanish killed hundreds of Aztecs and trashed their city. Hernand Cortes eventually claimed all the land that he had ¨conquered.¨

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When reaching for fame you could get higher on any type of social class or richer than you already are.
However having glory could lead to jealousy and people trying to conquer your land and your title, which leads to war.

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As we know natives were not christians, however planting a cross right in front of them could be that Cartier was trying to convert the natives into being christians.

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Did Cortes embody the human spirit of exploration and acquisition of knowledge? In my opinion Cortes did not know anything or had no knowledge about what an expedition really was. I think for him, his goal was to kill in order to reach his goals. Something he had not kept in mind was, there is always another way out of it. One word I would use to describe Cortes is Ruthless. I think he emobies the complete opposite of what an expedition is really about.

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Spices were a huge part in the Exploration. People wanted to find a new route for spice trades and silk trades.
Spices were more expensive than gold and could make someone very wealthy. With people conquering land it blocked some spice trade routes.

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To brothers help her sisters wedding stay alive my trying to convince the father to reconsider. They saw her well, but they had known what happen to her.

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Prince Henry used these trade routes to get spices. Many new trade routes were discovered for transportation.
However some many were blocked as people took over land.

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He was determined to find trade routes and he also wanted to find a christian converter. However it was soon to be just a legend. He established a sailors school. All these positives but, some of his plans did not go as plan when figuring out the truth about certain events.

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Were the English and French any different from the Spanish when they reached the New World? I think they were slightly different. During the English and French alot more of the converting people, took place. It was like they would conquer land and then convert natives into christians. However during the Spanish, it was more of getting rich and conquering for wealth, however converting took place but not all the time. Sometimes it would be enslaving them instead of converting them. I definitely think they were different but at the same time similar in their own way.

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Christopher Columbus set on many voyages to found a lot of trade routes. Instead he ended up finding a huge part of Europe and Spain.
However, Columbus started taking in natives as slaves and this started conflict until a treaty officially divided them.

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Were these motives and cause for exploration harmless?
I think the exploration motives and causes were not harmless what so ever. Making trade routes and discovering them does not harm any one whether you like who goes in your land or not. Selling gold and gold that is bought is not a bad thing. I think conquering land without fighting however capturing instead is better than killing. Also with the peace treaty it makes everyone happy in there own land. Trying to get wealthy buy buying goods such as spices and silk and gold is fine. Overall none of the motives or causes during the exploration harm anyone.