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(image above contains the famous Henry the Navigator from Spain who founded many parts of the world today)
 * European leaders are knowledges by the surroundings areas around them
 * With crusades bringing knowledge and Goods from Asia and Mongols spreading civilizations around.
 * Technological improvements during this time, such as ships that are used to trade with other neighboring countries
 * **Henry the navigator** leads an exploration of expeditions in order to bring goods or ideas back
 * Spain and Portugal are ahead of other countries in global economy wise.
 * **The Cape of Good** hope was a way of easier contact of goods and luxury items in India
 * Europeans lack for finding goods lead to violent actions, with Gama using guns on ships that killed many Indians merchants to set an example
 * Portugal began to set up forts in Africa
 * **Christopher Columbus**, from the country of Italy but sent from Spain to explore and find new discoveries in America
 * **Ferniand Magellan** was the final leader of the Spanish expeditions who then founded parts of the pacfic ocean and Indonesia
 * Britain and France begin their expedition with monarchs in their government
 * **British began building ships made of lightweight material and fast.**
 * British and France could not challenged Spain and Portugal
 * English explores wanted to find a route near the Arctic region leading to china hoping to find native populations to hope to sell then warm clothes
 * French Explorers reached Canada in 1534 which they claimed
 * **Dutch East India Company** given governments of monopolies of trade
 * **The British east India company** played a similar role in the 18th century, traded actively on furs
 * Native Americans began to die due to diseases brought from other countries
 * New crops and agricultural brought a population increase
 * 30% of todays food comes from American origin
 * Disease such as scurvy was faced and voyages were long, some lasting up to a year and the work was tiring and uncertain.
 * Europe dominated most of oceanic shipping
 * **Mestizos-** people of Mixed European and Native American blood.
 * Britian protected its own cotton cloth industry by passing tarifs.
 * Ottoman empire lost to the spanish in the battle of **Lepano**, which lead to Muslim rivalry against Europe
 * Most compeitivies nations were within Europe themselves
 * The **dominant core nations** were supplemented their growing economic prowed by political powers
 * **merchantilism** urged the fact of nations not importing goods from outside
 * The growth of cities in the West created a market for global imported grains.
 * **Vasco de Balba** set several expeditions in the Americas which let to Cubas spanish in the conquest of the Aztecs
 * Offered irons guns and horses in America by the Europeans
 * **Francisco PIzzaro** lead violent expeditions, captured the Inca empire and demanded large ransoms than choking them after