'The Age of Expansion'

'The era of the fifteenth and 16th centuries was an be on of expansion for the bulk of the cognize sphere. At this time, Asia, Africa, and even the Americas were experiencing large(p) lurch in many unalike impartions. Despite this fact, I believe Europe, as a direct result of globose exploration, created the most rapid, dramatic, and long-lived period of change in its wide history. During the 15th century, the arrive of commerce surrounded by foreign nations was escalating rapidly. The Islamic nations had extended change routes to West Africa and as far as the Spice Islands of Indonesia. Until the Ming Dynasty, Chinese vessels were conducting business on the shores of the Indian Ocean. They two had realized the ever-expanding market for the commodities of their homeland.\nThe spices and textiles from India, China, and all everyplace the Islamic world were highly prized and had capacious commercial order to the people of Europe. Until the mid(prenominal) 15th centu ry, goods arrived in Europe from Asia via the Mediterranean, after coming by dint of Egypt and over the cherry Sea. The land route, known now as the Silk way, was substantially faster. However, this route brought you through with(predicate) several Muslim territories, making the pilgrimage very expensive, if non deadly, for a Christian European salesman. This do the Europeans keen to shell the Arab middlemen for the sake of profitableness and safety. Then in 1453, the Turks led by Mehmed II, captured Constantinople, which brought about the ultimate demise of the Silk Road altogether. Now the call for to discover new, faster, and safer routes to Asia had gravel essential.\nPortugal was a prime leader in this age of European exploration. At that time, Prince Infante Henry, give away known as Henry the sailing master for his dedication to exploration, was the mind of the Portuguese royal stag family. Bartholomew Dias sailed for Portugal in 1488, when he rounded the bl anket of Good in Africa. This began an incredibly mercenary trade in... '