Columbus: Spain
Combination of circumstances rise from Merchants.
Big events:
conquietadors wanted gold, Silk, spices etc.
Fall of the Mongol Empire
Fall of constinoble
Growth of the middle class
Columbus needed to prove route to india
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Knew nothing of North and south America
Japan would build in almost total isolation
Invention of the Compass
-So this lead to the no need of saying insight of land anymore
-sailors were very superstitious
Navigation and the condition of ship builiding was much more advanced
Oct 12, about midnight "LAND HO"
Spain-In colonizing business
-different species of animals
local specialties
Beginning of Spanish Empire would last for the next 350 yrs.
Spain was established emperial power.
Fear that spain would out buy everyone.
gold and more gold
Florida means "Flower" in latin
Concentrated South Mexico, cuba, West Indies.
"black legend of spain"
Came about in England
England and spain were rivals.
Spanish inquistion-......

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