Exploration And Discovery Dbq
In the beginning of fifteen century, Europeans began what we now call “the age of exploration and discovery”. Portugal, Spain, Dutch, French, and England were all in battle for territory. People may asked why did all these countries want to colonize the Americas so bad? Before series of voyages launched to discover the new world, people had no knowledge of what the other side of the world was like and what did the Americas have to offer. The Europeans hoped that when they went to discover the Americas, they would find gold, spices and silks, instead they found silver and some natives. The New World had many things to offer to the Europeans and they saw the explorations of the new world to benefit them in wealth, knowledge and power. Europeans
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In Document 4 in Kirsch, explains in detail how John Smith had to deal with keeping the settlement in Jamestown from dying out. He says “there was no talk, no hope, and no work”, without the help the natives John admits he wouldn’t have been able to survive. He states that “ Now every once in four or five days, Pocahontas and her attendants brought him so much provision, that saved many of their lives, that else for all this had starved with hunger”. The agreement Smith made with the natives is the reason his life was …show more content…
Without the invention of ships, trade would have been kept to a minimum and the new world would have never been discovered by the Europeans. Ships transported people from countries to other countries, which allowed for diversity to occurred. Ships transported people to work on the developing plantations in the Americas and those items were sold to many other nations. Ships helped increase the military enforcement. Military only began stronger with the creation of ships, battles were allowed to occur on water, rather than land. Military was able to protect their country overseas and on land. With stronger military and better wealth leads up to political power. The nation with the strongest military and strongest economic status was considered the most feared country and most
In Document 4 in Kirsch, explains in detail how John Smith had to deal with keeping the settlement in Jamestown from dying out. He says “there was no talk, no hope, and no work”, without the help the natives John admits he wouldn’t have been able to survive. He states that “ Now every once in four or five days, Pocahontas and her attendants brought him so much provision, that saved many of their lives, that else for all this had starved with hunger”. The agreement Smith made with the natives is the reason his life was …show more content…
Without the invention of ships, trade would have been kept to a minimum and the new world would have never been discovered by the Europeans. Ships transported people from countries to other countries, which allowed for diversity to occurred. Ships transported people to work on the developing plantations in the Americas and those items were sold to many other nations. Ships helped increase the military enforcement. Military only began stronger with the creation of ships, battles were allowed to occur on water, rather than land. Military was able to protect their country overseas and on land. With stronger military and better wealth leads up to political power. The nation with the strongest military and strongest economic status was considered the most feared country and most