5-If Europe (Especially Britain) was known for anything, it was their immense seapower, and quick expansion through the entire world via ship, an achievement only available through the invention of the caravel in Portugal in the 1500s. The caravel was a ship with both the European square sails with Arab triangular sails, allowing for a ship that could travel faster, lighter, and easier going against heavy wind. Despite all the talk of the achievements of European explorers, without the caravel their voyages would have been either much longer or simply impossible. Not only being used for exploration, caravels were also used after the Americas had been discovered, being essential for linking the triangle of trade that linked the colonies, Europe, and America. While briefly being mentioned by one of the members of the explorers group, I wished that they could have gone more in depth on this piece of technology, considering the importance it had to the
6-The success of Europe in the Americas is often attributed to three things, guns, germs, and steel. One of the most deadly diseases to the Native Americans was smallpox, which arrived in the Americas in 1520 via a SPanish ship sailing from Cuba, that carried an infected African Slave. Because the Europeans had gained an…show more content… This was a conflict in the Holy Roman Empire that resulted from the Emperor's lack of power, leading to divided German states and eventual conflict. This conflict was so large that is it was regarded as a general European conflict, and the Treaty of Westphalia lead to a general European peace, which caused the rise of Habsburg and Prussian. This event was briefly covered in the Eastern European Monarchs group, but i feel that they could have gone into more depth on the actual
