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__GROUP MEMBERS:__ Joey Carlo Jannah Ramadan John Kroner Giorgi Irizarry

__TOPICS:__ SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION During the Scientific Revolution, the church had all of the power and disagreed with many of the people’s theories and opinions. For example, they didn’t appreciate the reformation that Martin Luther posted on the church door, also known as the 95 Theses. They also disagreed with Copernicus’s theory of the heliocentric model, which states that the sun was the center of the universe. The reason the church disagreed was because they believed in the geocentric model, which was created by Ptolemy. After these theories were made, Isaac Newton discovered gravity.

AGE OF EXPLORATION: During the Age of Exploration Bartholomew Dias said to Cape of Good Hope on the southern tip of Africa. Christopher Columbus sailed the Atlantic Ocean to find a new route to India and bring back valuable goods like pepper in 1492. Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand financed the journey with giving Columbus three ships Nina, Pinta, and the Santa Maria. When he found land, that he thought was India, he found a whole new land mass. Christopher thought that he was the first person to land in the new land, but it was really a group of vikings led by Erik the Red and his son Leif Ericson. When Columbus found out that the new land was not India but an entire new land mass. The three motivations for sailing to land mass were Gold God and Glory.

PORTUGAL Portugal was one of the first countries to start exploring. Wanting to travel to India by sea, Prince Henry sent Bartholomew Dias to travel around Africa and he found the Cape of Good Hope. Bartholomew Dias returned to Portugal and told about his discovery. Then Vasco De Gamma was the first person to go around Africa by sea and make it to India. After Christopher Columbus found the Bahamas and many people were going to the new world, Pope Alexander drew a line to divide Spain’s territory and Portugal’s territory. Though he didn’t know it at the time, Pope Alexander gave Span more land and Portugal only had Brazil.

SPAIN

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In 1492 Christopher Columbus led his three ships sailing west. The Encomienda system had its roots in the Spanish reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula. Christopher Columbus 1492 landing in the Americans is usually observed as Columbus Day. The encomienda system is deeply entrenched in the history and culture of South and Central America, and is one of the most damaging institutions that the Spanish colonists implemented in the New World. The system came to signify the oppression and exploitation of Native Americans, although its originators did not set out with such intent.======