https://padlet.com/liumyr/lq079kl0kpk7zqn5 en-us 2022-09-15 14:54:14 UTC 2022-09-16 03:18:55 UTC hello@padlet.com liumyr https://padlet.com/liumyr/lq079kl0kpk7zqn5/wish/2298461102 With the invention of the compass, explorers could finally and accurately navigate across the seven seas. Ultimately, it was with inventions like these that truly kickstarted the Age of Exploration. ]]> 2022-09-15 14:59:34 UTC https://padlet.com/liumyr/lq079kl0kpk7zqn5/wish/2298461102 liumyr https://padlet.com/liumyr/lq079kl0kpk7zqn5/wish/2298482524 With the invention of the map, along with the compass, navigation became ever easier and thus, encouraged even more explorers to roam the seas.]]> 2022-09-15 15:10:03 UTC https://padlet.com/liumyr/lq079kl0kpk7zqn5/wish/2298482524 liumyr https://padlet.com/liumyr/lq079kl0kpk7zqn5/wish/2298491752 Despite the many hardships that came with roaming the ocean, their labor did not go unrewarded. With their discovery of the new World, and subsequently the many riches that came along with it, they began to extract all the silver they could get their hands on. Although this would ultimately lead to the rise of inflation in Europe, Spain still became insanely wealthy as a result. ]]> 2022-09-15 15:14:54 UTC https://padlet.com/liumyr/lq079kl0kpk7zqn5/wish/2298491752 liumyr https://padlet.com/liumyr/lq079kl0kpk7zqn5/wish/2298493708 As a result of the many plantations in the new World, Europe was practically having once rare items reserved only for elites shoved down their throats to enjoy. Finally, things like sugar, salt and silk were being introduced to the middle class, ultimately increasing the general population. ]]> 2022-09-15 15:15:58 UTC https://padlet.com/liumyr/lq079kl0kpk7zqn5/wish/2298493708 liumyr https://padlet.com/liumyr/lq079kl0kpk7zqn5/wish/2299299460 As usual in most things, the church also played a massive role in causing the Age of Exploration. The notion, however false, that people were claiming land to increase the influence of the Catholic church beyond Europe served as the rationale behind many of the conquistador's actions. ]]> 2022-09-16 02:43:42 UTC https://padlet.com/liumyr/lq079kl0kpk7zqn5/wish/2299299460 liumyr https://padlet.com/liumyr/lq079kl0kpk7zqn5/wish/2299344083 Although the most common accounts of exploration include the many great things that came to Europe as a result of the discovery of the new World, there laid an even greater amount of consequences, especially for the natives. This video illustrates the plight of those people as everything they had ever known became immediately uprooted. ]]> 2022-09-16 03:18:55 UTC https://padlet.com/liumyr/lq079kl0kpk7zqn5/wish/2299344083