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__GROUP MEMBERS:__ Noel Vermiglio Allison Schramm Tayler Hehir

__TOPICS:__ SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION Summaries Portugal:

In the Age of Exploration, Portugal played an important role in finding and conquering new lands. Bartholomeu Dias was the first successful sailor to sail around Africa; he named the bottom tip The Cape Of Good Hope. Vasco de Gama was another sailor who was sent out by Prince Henry of Portugal. Prince Henry summoned all the best sailors, ship experts, weather experts, etc. to go to Africa and meet with the King. Portugal and Spain got into an argument over who would have the New World, but Pope Alexander solved this problem by drawing the Line of Demarcation; a line going down the “middle” of the new world, giving the west to Portugal and the east to Spain. But what the Pope didn’t realize was that the line was actually more towards the east, and Spain only got what is now known as Brazil.

Spain:

Spain also played an important role in The Age of Exploration. King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella were the rulers of Spain during this period in time, and their decision to support Christopher Columbus on his exploration changed the world. If it wasn’t for them, Columbus would have never sailed to the Bahamas and introduced Europe to tobacco and hammocks. In the Bahamas, Columbus set up encomienda; a type of government that enslaved all the people of the Bahamas and required them to give him and his people their gold. Spain and Portugal’s problem was solved by Pope Alexander’s Line of Demarcation.

Scientific Revolution:

Scientific revolution was the time when new ideas and inventions were discovered in religion and science in the Middle Ages. It was the time when science and religion was changed. Many things were seen differently and taught differently. Martin Luther was a man who changed the religion in the Middle Ages. He believed that the things the Catholic Church made people believe and do were horrific. He thought it was wrong and needed to change it, and that is exactly what he did. He made a new religion called Lutheran, which is when you believe that you just need faith alone and you just need to do good deeds to go to heaven, when the church said you needed to buy sales of indulges. There were many other new discoveries and inventions made then, but they weren’t all religious. They were mostly scientific. An astronomer Isaac Newton found one of the greatest discoveries. He was the first man to discover what gravity was and how it worked. Another discoverer in the same time period Copernicus, was the first astronomer to discover heliocentric and share it to the world. But unfortunately no one had believed him. They didn’t see why they should believe in him because he had no proof. Many people hadn’t believed in him because the people were already told about geocentric. A Greek astronomer, Ptolemy believed in the exact opposite

Age of Exploration:

In 1492, Chris Columbus attempted to sail to India to get gold and pepper. The men that he took along had many motivations. They wanted to gain gold, God and glory. Later, Bartholomeu Dias tried to sail around the tip of Africa. He called this place the Cape of Good Hope. After he sailed around the tip, Spain and Portugal were getting angry that one country has more land then other. Pope Alexander decided to draw the line of demarcation separating Spain and Portugal so they would no longer fight over land. Spain ended up getting the smaller half of the land that was split, which is now, called Brazil. In 982, Erik the Red sailed to a unknown land. He rounded the southern tip of Iceland and sailed up the western coast. He eventually reached a part of the coast that was ice free.