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__TOPICS:__ Scientific Revolution:During the scientific revolution, Copernicus was the first to think of heliocentric theory. But Ptolemy thought otherwise, he believed in the geocentric theory. Isaac Newton discovered gravity. Martin Luther got people to realize that the church wasn’t always right and that’s when people started to find other ways to explain things.

Age of Exploration:Age Of Exploration the first peaople to explore were the Vikings on of the famous Vikingswas eric the red. Christphoer cloumbous was trying to get to the spice islands to try and get pepper hismotivations to get money 2 spread his religon and knowledge. Spain and portagaul were fighting over land so popealeaxnder drew a line of demarcation, wich gave portagula everything to thewest and spain everything to east there fore portagual got brazil

Portugal:Prince Henry, the ruler of Portugal. He had asked Vasco de gama, and Bartholemule to explore. They explored and found the cape of good hope which was the route around south africa. The route made traveling much easier by sea instead of traveling by land. Traveling by land was harder and longer from all of the stops and things to buy on the way.

Spain: Spain Christopher Columbus was a Spanish explorer who sailed for Spain. He wanted to sail to India and the Spice Islands. Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand funded his trip. On 1492 he landed in America. He lived by Encomienda and took slaves to do his work and he was very mean to them. Spain and Portugal had started fighting over land. Pope Alexander was not happy with this and he drew the Line of Demarcation.