Hyunseok+Kim+The+Age+of+Exploration


 * __The Age of Exploration:Would you go?__ **

By exploring, some might get favored of the King or the Queen of the sponsoring nation. For example, if one finds a new land, they would want glory and fame. If they find a new good land, they would get honored by the future generations and might be written down as a history. Also, they would get favored by the sponsoring King or the Queen. Again, by finding new land, one has a great chance of getting rich.
 * What possible rewards might come from exploring the seas for new lands?**

By embarking on a voyage into the unknown has numerous risks. By traveling by a vessel, a man do not know the geography of the new lands and they might get lost. Even worse, they are in new lands and a storm struck.Then they would get seriously damaged, be in panic. Worse, their ship might sink. Also, if they do not know how much food they need, they might miscalculate and be starved to death.
 * What are the risks involved in embarking on a voyage into the unknown?**

During my voyage, if I actually run into other groups of people, if they are friendly and act pleasant to us, I would treat them with respect and be friendly. We might share goods that we need and might even support them if they are in trouble. However, if they do not seem friendly and they look suspicious we might just leave them alone or we might kill them. If there is a probability of us losing, then I would just ignore and escape from danger.
 * What will you do if you actually run into other people?**

An astrolabe helped sailors because it could determine any direction based on the position of the stars. With out the astrolabe the sailors were able to locate the latitudes and longitudes so they were able to navigate the route they were taking.
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**Vasco Da Gama**
 * Sponsoring nation : Portugal**
 * Dates of voyages : He started his first expedition in 1497**; **Headed to India again in 1502.**
 * Size of fleet : 20 ships including his men.**
 * Naval commander Vasco da Gama's 1497 expedition from Lisbon opened a route to India and led to Portugese dominance of the Eastern spice trade. Little is known of his life before he was assigned command of the expedition that left Lisbon in July of 1497. He established a route around Africa's Cape of Good Hope, up the coast of East Africa and finally to Calicut in India. He returned to Portugal in 1499, having lost most of his men while establishing trade posts in East Africa and India.**


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 * Cause of Slavery : The cause of slavery was the greed for power and money. In Africa, each other tribes would capture another during a war and sold them for money. When the Europeans came to Africa, they saw this moment and they bought slaves and brought it to the new lands. When the Europeans brought in slaves, they had a huge profit of the slaves; they kept buying new slaves from Africa and kept of exchanging slaves for money.**


 * Explain the triangular route : The triangular route was the route to trade goods with another countries. The route was started in Africa where slaves were sold and bought to Europeans. The Europeans brought slaves to new lands and slaves had work to do. By the slaves, they created more cotton, sugar, and tobacco. These items were sent to Europe. Europe manufactured goods as textiles, rum and sent these items to Africa. This cycle began and it was called the Triangular trade.**


 * Consequence : The consequence of the mass slave trade was that Africa came very poor. When Europeans bought slaves that were productive, more and more people from Africa was going away. They took most of the men who were productive so, there were only sick, old Africans left in the continent. These people can not work and be productive. People started to get poor because they can not do labor and earn money. Currently, Africa is well known for being poor.**