Turning Point
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- I am going to find a new trade route to Asia!!!
- We are going to become rich!!!
- Thank goodness, now we can bring back spain to it’s former glory
- The muslims has finally surrendered your majesty’s
- Wow this device is really useful, we should show it to other people
- Yeah, people will love this
- Bartolomeu Días becomes the first person to reach the tip of Africa opening a new trade route in 1488
- We need a trade route to Asia too but who will be willing to risk their lives though?
- Okay, deal we will fund your travels
- Spain had finally taken back their land from the Muslims after many centuries and had a large amount of wealth to spend
- I can help establish your trade route to Asia if you are willing to fund my journey
- Also inventions such as the compass are starting to get introduced to Europe which made navigating the seas much easier
- Yea it will be very popular
- After seeing Portugal’s success with their newly found trade route to Asia, the Spanish monarchs wanted to have a trade route to Asia of their own.
- Then a man by the name of Christopher Columbus had a plan to establish a new trade route and asked for funding from the monarchs.
- Christopher Columbus believed that the Earth is a sphere meaning that if he sailed west he would eventually reach Asia not knowing that the Americas existed
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