Portuguese and Spanish Exploration and Colonization

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Portuguese and Spanish Exploration and Colonization

Introduction

The geographic discoveries of the 15th and 16th centuries is a series of geographical explorations made at the beginning of the modern age, that due to economic reasons, ideological and technical prompted Europeans to discover sea routes and areas distant from their surroundings, which were held during the 15th and 16th centuries, especially by Portuguese and Spanish. 

Background

Between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries after the Crusades, Christianity experienced great changes: reborn cities and commerce grew, Europe made contact with the neighboring lands of Asia and found their products and ...