Discussion 1: Age of Exploration
Modern Europe
What Did the Spanish Conquests in the Atlantic Look Like?
What Did the Portuguese Conquests Look Like?
Was This a Difference in the Type of Empires?
- Was there a Spanish model and a Portuguese model?
- What about Brazil?
What Did Pain Argue About the Difference Between the Two Empires?
- Do you see that in the sources?
What Did the Conquests Look like in the Sources?
- Portuguese?
- Vasco Da Gama?
- Dom Francisco?
- Spain?
- What does the conquests of the Aztecs look like in the sources?
- What about the conquests of the Bahamas?
What Was the Role of Local Groups?