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__GROUP MEMBERS:__ Nicky Costabile,Ben Evans,Andrea Aybry

__TOPICS:__ The Scientific Revolution was a time when scientist questioned the churches ideas. For example Copernicus was a scientist who said that the world was geocentric when the church said it was heliocentric. The next scientist to say and prove it was Galileo. He figured out with a new invention called the telescope that the sun was the center of the university. The next great thinker was Isaac Newton He Found the law of gravity, which is still used today. During the Scientific Revolution the church controlled almost everything and anyone who did not agree with them would be consider a hieratic __**AGE OF EXPLORATION**__ The demand for pepper in Asia grew tremendously in the 1400s. They traded with Europe and passed goods. In 1415 Prince Henry came into the picture and prepared everyone for long voyages. He hoped to form an alliance with Pester John against the Muslims and wanted to find a source of African gold. When he died Bartholomeu Dias then took over and was blown off course by a violent storm. Vasco de Gama led 4 ships around the Cape of Good Hope. His voyage lasted 10 months and he finally reached the west coast of India. He went from Portugal, all the way around Africa and landed in India. A seek to a trade route to Asia began. Christopher Columbus wanted to reach the Indies by sailing west across the Atlantic. Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain financed him, which would help him along his journey. This happened because Columbus convinced them to help him. A problem occurred and both Spain and Portugal wanted to claim the land Columbus found. Pope Alexander drew the line of demarcation and Spain had the right to trade on the west of the line and Portugal had right to trade on the east of the line. __**PORTUGAL AND SPAIN**__ Prince Henry embodied the crusading drive and the new spirit of exploration. In 1488, Bartholomeu Dias rounded the southern tip of Africa after being blown off course by a violent storm. The tip became known as the Cape of Good Hope because it opened the way for a sea route to Asia. In 1492, Columbus finally convinced Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain to finance his “enterprise of the Indies”. An ecomienda is system, instituted in 1503, under which a Spanish soldier or colonist was granted a tract of land or a village together with its Indian inhabitants.
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