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Europe become the dominant civilization on Earth by 1800. The reasons that
Europeans conquered the world (except Asia) was to spread the gospel and to
get rich and powerful through their colonies.
Explorers from Spain and Portugal made their first voyage to unknown water,
driven by curiosity and by religious and economic aims. Explorers left Europe
in the late 1400´s, exploring throughout Africa and the Americas. Christopher
Columbus, an Italian navigator, thought that the world was much smaller
that it actually is, and believed that he could get to India faster by traveling
west. In 1492 Columbus made his
first trip. He left with three ships across the Atlantic to reach "India".
He landed in the Bahamas of the Caribbean and and he thought he had reached
India. Queen Isabella and her husband had sponsored three more voyages of Columbus
to South America, but he still thought that it was India.
Portugal and Spain took lead in exploration. Portugal was the first European
nation to establish an overseas empire. South America was conquered by Spain
and Portugal. The Portuguese conquered Brazil and Africa and a little part of
Asia. And Spain went conquered the remainder of South Americas. North America
was later Colonized by England and France. European domination was seen by Europeans
to be an act of God. Although disease wiped out the majority of the native peoples,
those remaining eventually adopted Catholicism in South America and Protestant
Christianity in North America.
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