第六章 Age of Discovery 航海时代
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ping the planet. Historians often refer to the “Age of Discovery”as the pioneer Portuguese and Spanish long–distance maritime travels in search of alternative trade routes to “the Indies”， moved by the trade of gold， silver and spices. ??The Portuguese began systematically exploring the Atlantic coast of Africa from 1418， under the sponsorship of Prince Henry， reaching the Indian Ocean by this route in 1488. In 1492， racing to find a trade route to Asia， the Spanish monarchs funded Christopher Columbus’s plan to sail west to reach the Indies by crossing the Atlantic. He landed on an uncharted continent， and then seen by Europeans as a new world， America. To prevent conflict between