https://padlet.com/ccaldwell5/u2xsvdw40eg0 DBQ analysis en-us 2017-10-06 15:24:24 UTC 2017-10-06 19:58:41 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/ccaldwell5/u2xsvdw40eg0/wish/194830879 Motivations for the initiation of The Age of Exploration were fundamentally economic, political, and religious.  According to Bartolome de Las Casas, Historia de las Indias, Europeans found foreign lands bountiful and citizens of these lands easy to take advantage of. This provided an opportunity for exploitation on the parts of key countries such as Spain during the age of exploration. Politically, the submissive attitudes of the natives of the new world gave ambitious Europeans opportunity to expand not just on their wealth, but also on their social class. In a letter to the Duke of Milan, Fra Soncino stated poor Italians and members of the lower classes such as barbers volunteered their services on strenuous voyages of exploration since in the new lands they discovered they would be offered titles and positions in the upper class that seemed a distant idea back in Europe. Personal interest aside, many Europeans saw it as their duty to convert the people they saw as savages to the Christian faith. This idea is summarized in a letter to King Ferdinand written by Queen Isabella which expressed the idea that Europeans obtained land in the new world to convert the inhabitants to Catholicism. This idea is also expressed in Christopher Columbus's letter to Lord Sanchez. Columbus which communicates  that he gives the natives goods from Europe in order to more easily convert them to the Catholic religion. ]]> 2017-10-06 19:04:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ccaldwell5/u2xsvdw40eg0/wish/194830879 https://padlet.com/ccaldwell5/u2xsvdw40eg0/wish/194831805 2017-10-06 19:07:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ccaldwell5/u2xsvdw40eg0/wish/194831805 https://padlet.com/ccaldwell5/u2xsvdw40eg0/wish/194832237 During the Age of Exploration, a multitude of consequences were displayed by the lives of the people involved, specifically in the lives of the native inhabitants and the explorers who came to interact with them. These consequences specifically related to the length and quality of life of the people involved. One instance of this is in an account written by Antonio Pigafetta, which details a violent altercation between the landing explorers and the natives of the lands which they came to occupy. While this was written by an explorer, and as such was written to glorify and verify his perspective whilst simultaneously vilifying and demeaning his opposition, the natives, he did nonetheless display a violent and deadly incident which would become a near commonplace consequence of interactions between explorers and the residents of the islands they claimed. Another instance of a mortal consequence on the lives of the indigenous people was the introduction of various European diseases. In a drawing by a Catholic missionary by the name of Fray Bernadino de Sahagun, a group of Aztec people are suffering from smallpox. This disease was unknown prior to European landings in the Americas, and came to ravage the lives of the people already residing there. Finally, in an account given by Pope Paul III, the issue of native enslavement is presented. This had already become a practice imposed on natives at the time, worsening their quality of life as well as rising their mortality rate. Nonetheless, Pope Paul addressed enslavement as an un-Christian practice. While some Europeans, i.e. Pope Paul III, advocated against slavery of indigenous people, this document still points out the fact that slavery had risen to a prominence that needed to be addressed. From these three documents, the consequences of diseases, slavery, and conflict become apparent. ]]> 2017-10-06 19:09:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ccaldwell5/u2xsvdw40eg0/wish/194832237 https://padlet.com/ccaldwell5/u2xsvdw40eg0/wish/194833106 yyooooo]]> 2017-10-06 19:12:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ccaldwell5/u2xsvdw40eg0/wish/194833106 https://padlet.com/ccaldwell5/u2xsvdw40eg0/wish/194836918 During the Age of Exploration there may have been a general view that the world was entering healthy new era, however there were those who had become critical due to the mistreatment and enslavement of the native american people. According to a letter from Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain to Christopher Columbus (document 1), the crown of Spain praised Columbus for acquiring new lands in the Americas for Spain and going as far to say he shall be the new Admiral of the islands and the continent itself. However others, like Bartolome de las Casas (document 8), were disgusted and outraged at the cruelty and greed of the Christian Explorers stating that they had forsaken their initial intention and their ambition had become overweening. Furthermore Pope Paul III (document 6) displays more dissatisfaction by stating that the natives should not be reduced to servitude, deprived of their liberty or their property if they're outside the christian faith. ]]> 2017-10-06 19:26:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ccaldwell5/u2xsvdw40eg0/wish/194836918 https://padlet.com/ccaldwell5/u2xsvdw40eg0/wish/194844396 kachow]]> 2017-10-06 19:58:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ccaldwell5/u2xsvdw40eg0/wish/194844396