COMPARING AND CONTRASTING EVENTS IN HISTORY

During the 15Th century the age of exploration was starting. In history you could compare the Age of Exploration to Imperialism of Africa during the 19Th century. The age of exploration was when The Spanish where looking for new trade routes to evade going through The ottomans. Because They had just had the Crusades. So the age of exploration was when the Spanish colonize The native Americans to take their natural resources and use them as slaves. When you colonize a country to use them for good this is known as Mercantilism. So they created and economic system of Mercantilism. Mercantilism creates a favorable balance of trade because you are not buying anything and you are selling a lot. This could relate to the 20Th century Imperialism of Africa because many European countries were fighting to control Africans. They wanted to colonize them and take all their diamonds. This is also another reason why Spanish colonize Native Americans because they thought that N.A had gold. Same way that Europeans took control of the diamonds in Africa.

As you could see on this picture, their is a hand trying to control the world. This is showing imperialism because imperialism is basically saying that you should control other places to help them out. So you see a hand helping the world be lifted up and then is grabbing it. Same way Europeans thought they had to do to other places in the world.

BY: Johnny Rodriguez