The age of discoveries [angoltortenelem]

The age of discoveries

1. From the middle of the XV. century there was slow development.

- industry and agriculture developed

- overpopulation arrow Western-Europe couldn’t provide food for its population arrow more and more agricultural goods for import.

- Trade was arranged by the navigation on the Atlantic coast.

- The precious metal-mines of Europe couldn’t provide enough precious metal arrow after 1453 the Turkish empire got all the benefit from the trade of the Mediterranean-sea.

- 1471 Portuguese sailors travelled through the Equator

- 1498 Vasco de Gamma shipping around Africa he reached the western coasts of India.

- 12^th October 1492 Christopher Columbus disembarked at Guanahani-peninsula.

- Cortez, Alvarando, Pizarro: they wanted to loot the natives and conquer America.

- 1521-1600 a huge amount of silver, gold and precious metal were given to the poor Europe. The biggest treasures of America, its plants spread in Europe also. For example: corn, potato, tomato, sunflower, tobacco and pineapple. Rubber, cocoa and vanilla also come from America.

- The native Indians had to work in mines and on different plantations. If they were weak black slaves were shipped from Africa so the shipping of slaves became very common in the Atlantic navigation.

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