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__GROUP MEMBERS:__ Elisa Del Villar, Ryan Szabo, Alan Tufano

__TOPICS:__ SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION: The scientific revolution is a time where scientists were born. Copernicus was a polish astronomer and mathematician in the world.  Issac Newton physics teacher and a mathematician. Martin Luther believed in faith alone. Ptolemy was an astronomer who studied the stars. He knew about heliocentric which was that the sun was the center of the everything. AGE OF EXPLORATION The age of exploration was an important time for all explorers in the world. The age of exploration had Vikings Christopher Columbus and Vasco de Gama. The Vikings where blood thirsty mongrels who went down rivers and oceans killing the people that they saw and going into villages and destroying them.

Christopher Columbus was a pretty cool guy he took a boat from Spain and went to the east trying to find a way to get to Asia but in the end he ended up finding North America and founding the Bahamas from the Indians there and forcing them to work for them.

Vasco de Gama was another explorer except instead of going around killing people or enslaving Indians on a local island he decided that he was going to sail down Africa he sailed all the way down to Cape of Good Hope.

The encomienda was the law that was passed by a Spanish minister who said that the Indians were too weak to work in the plantations but they’re very spiritual so they wanted to make them convert people to Christianity

Pepper was the main goal of all the travel to India they would sail down to India buy some pepper then sell them for 300x the price in Europe

PORTUGAL

 Portugal is a country that is located in the western part of Europe. The country of Portugal is credited for being the ones to start the age of exploration. Prince Henry the navigator was the first person to start exploring. He gathered a group of sailors, ship builders, and other people in the sailing business. Prince Henry sent Bartholomew Dias to explore the coast of Africa. He sailed all of the way to the bottom and he named the bottom tip of Africa the Cape of Good Hope. A few years later Portugal sent sailor Vasco de Gama to sail around Africa and reach India. He reached India and made a lot of money for buying pepper in Asia and then selling it in Europe. After the Spanish sailer Christopher Columbus found the Americas Pope Alexander drew the line of Demarcation to split the new land. Portugal was given the present-day country of Brazil because of the line. Portugal was the first country to explore and as a result other countries made historical finds and amazing journeys. 4 SPAIN: In 1492 Spain was a major country in the that was ruled over Isabella & Ferdinand. Christopher columbus sailed on 1492 in the same year. TO bring back valuable and the Spanish conquistadors. The country of Spain became very wealthy after Columbus found the Americas Back To Class Page