Cortes & Colombus
At the beginning of the fifteenth century, the world was a quite small place for Europeans. While they knew about China and Southern Africa, their worldview was still focused on Europe and the Mediterranean. Within 200 years, Europe would be almost all over the world with settlement on various continents. By 1700, most of the coastline of the Americas would be under the domination of Europeans. Meanwhile, with the European conquest of the Nuvus Mondus -the New World- Europe also discovered and revealed a darker side of itself in the age of exploration.The Portuguese all throughout the 16th century built a monopoly in the spice trade from the east by dominating the trade routes around the continent of Africa. Spain, on the other hand, began thinking of ways to get around this monopoly by developing a western route to the eastern countries. The Spanish were especially well prepared by history to conquer, occupy, populate and exploit new lands and assimilate new people. " With Portugal dominating the African route to India, Queen Isabelle of Castile was persuaded to take an interest in a western route by a Genoese adventures, Christopher Columbus." Columbus was in his forty-first year. He had lived 9 years in Spain, where he w
we could no longer endure the stench of the dead bodies that had lain in those streets for many days. Soon after Columbus' discovery, every country in Europe turned their attention to the Americas. As the name suggests, the conquistador set out to conquer the territories of the new continents. He was, of course, completely mistaken; " he misjudged the size of globe by 25% and the distance of the journey by 400%. What were the real reasons behind this decision of discovering a new land? Undoubtedly, the discovery of the American continent was almost entirely about one and only thing: money. All the trade routes east of the Cape of God belonged to Portugal while the entire routes west across the Atlantic belonged to Spain. ] The walls were so culsted with blood and the floor was so bathed in it that in the slaughterness of Castile there was no such strink. These efforts eventually gave birth to the mercantilist system and, hence, capitalism. Cortes sailed across the Gulf of Mexico in February 18,1519. In the light of the above, we can say that Cortes has finally reaching one of the main goals of his exploration: the power.
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