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    European explorers claimed their motivation was to spread Christianity, but in reality they sought to gain control of global trade routes to spices like pepper. The lucrative spice trade had been disrupted by the Turks blocking overland routes, so explorers like Cabot, Columbus, and Raleigh sailed west and south in search of new routes to Asia and its spices. While religion was used to justify their actions, documents show the explorers' primary goals were acquiring wealth through trade and establishing European dominance over newly discovered lands and peoples.

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    European explorers claimed their motivation was to spread Christianity, but in reality they sought to gain control of global trade routes to spices like pepper. The lucrative spice trade had been disrupted by the Turks blocking overland routes, so explorers like Cabot, Columbus, and Raleigh sailed west and south in search of new routes to Asia and its spices. While religion was used to justify their actions, documents show the explorers' primary goals were acquiring wealth through trade and establishing European dominance over newly discovered lands and peoples.

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    European explorers claimed their motivation was to spread Christianity, but in reality they sought to gain control of global trade routes to spices like pepper. The lucrative spice trade had been disrupted by the Turks blocking overland routes, so explorers like Cabot, Columbus, and Raleigh sailed west and south in search of new routes to Asia and its spices. While religion was used to justify their actions, documents show the explorers' primary goals were acquiring wealth through trade and establishing European dominance over newly discovered lands and peoples.

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    European Exploration and Expansion

    Central Historical Question:


    Why did European explorers say their motivation to explore was to
    spread their Holy Faith, if events show it was really supremacy in global
    trade they wanted and why have textbooks supported their claims?
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    Textbook
    #1 Seeds of Change by Henry Hobhouse
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    The starting point for the European expansion of the Mediterranean and the
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    Atlantic
    continental shelf had nothing to do with, say, religion or the rise of
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    capitalism-but
    it had a great deal to do with pepper. Pepper compromised more
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    than
    half of all the spice imports into Italy over a period of more than a century. No
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    other
    single spice came within one-tenth of its value. However, since about 1470
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    the
    Turks had been impeding the overland trade routes. As a result the great
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    Portuguese,
    Italian, and Spanish explorers all sailed west or south in order to reach
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    the
    Orient. The Americas were discovered as a by-product in the search for pepper.
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    Document
    #1 Patent given to John Cabot by Englands King Henry VII 1492
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    To find, discover and investigate whatsoever islands, countries, regions or
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    provinces of heathens and infidels, in whatsoever part of the world placed, which
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    before this time were unknown to all Christians. John and his sons or their heirs and

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    deputies
    may conquer, occupy and possess whatsoever such towns, castles, cities
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    and
    islands discovered by them, but, they must pay to us, either in goods or money,
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    the
    fifth part of the whole capital gained.
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    Document
    #2 Writing of Sir Walter Raleigh 1509
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    The Discovery of the new Western World followed, as an incidental consequence,
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    from
    the long struggle of the nations of Europe for commercial supremacy and
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    control
    of the traffic with the East. All the dreams of the politicians and merchants,
    ____________________________________________________________
    sailors
    and geographers, who pushed back the limits of the unknown world, had the
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    same
    glitter of gold and precious stones, the same odor of far-fetched spices.

    Document #3 Letter of Christopher Columbus to Luis de Saint Angel 1493


    These lands had been imagined and talked of before they were seen; most men
    thought they were just an idle tale.
    Because of this voyage their Highnesses will see how I can give them as much
    gold, spices, cotton, and as many Indian slaves as they choose to send for, if they will
    give me a little assistance.
    The eternal and almighty God, our Lord, gives to all who walk in His way, victory
    over things apparently impossible. Our God has given victory to our most illustrious
    King and Queen, and to their kingdoms rendered famous by this glorious event.

    Document #4 Law of Burgos, 1512 Regulation of the Spanish Crown


    Whereas, the King, my Lord and Father, and the Queen, my Mistress and Mother
    (may she rest in glory!), always desired that the chiefs and Indians of the Island of
    Espaola be brought to a knowledge of our Holy Catholic Faith, it has become
    evident that nothing can be done to bring them to a knowledge of our Faith
    (necessary for their salvation).
    Document #5 Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico
    At the request of the Aztec Prince Ixtlilxochitl, Cortes and his men ate the gifts of
    food that had been brought to them. They walked into the city, and all the people
    came to cheer and welcome them. They knelt down and adored them as sons of the
    Sun, their gods.
    Cortez was very grateful; he wished to repay their kindness by teaching them the
    law of God. He told them the emperor of the Christians had sent him here to teach
    them in the law of Christ. He explained them the mysteries of Christianity. He
    concluded the lesson by telling them how they were not in Gods grace, and they
    were here only to save their souls.
    Source: Miguel Leon-Portilla, ed. The Broken Spears: Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico.

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