European traders started to enslaved africans in the early 1500s
The portuguese established trade colonies in the indian cost in 1505 and had routes that led to china
Amerigo Vespucci travelled deep into the coastlines of south america, shedding light on future explorers.
Martin Luther began the Protestant Reformation in 1517
Ottoman Selim conques the majority of arab and egypt in 1517.
Jacques Cartier explored the northeast coast of north america, setting a foundation to future settlers / explorers.
Spaniards fled cuba and arrived in mexico, carrying a lot of today’s modern mexican culture with them.
Cortes started to get word that there was a ‘city of gold’ and decided to invade up north
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“The rapid fall of the Aztec and the Inca empires demonstrated the power of European technology. The agrarian class of the Indian societies of South America lacked the farm animals, wheeled vehicles, and plows for efficient production, requiring stern oversight by the empires’s upper classes to achieve a degree of wealth that could support them. “
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The aztec empire was the most powerful civilization in the new world until cortes and his spaniard army arrived. With the mindset of “god and gold” cortes did horrendous things to the native population, enslaving thousands upon thousands of aztec citizens and bringing fatal diseases to the civilization, eventually leading to an all out genocide authorized by the diseases.
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