to the East by the taking Constantinople[1]and the near east by the Turkish. The European economy at that time depended on the trade in spices and multiple consumption objects imported from those distant lands. "Merchants" from all the major European cities and especially Venice and London completely dominated commerce.
"Christopher Columbus was financed by Venetian merchants, and not by the few and modest jewelry that Isabel la Catolica might have had, what paved the way to our continent". (José María Muría. 1982) [2]
Immediately after the accidental encounter with the Cem Anahuac (North America) and the Tahuantinsuyo[3] (South America), the spaniards started the invasion, destruction, pillage, exploitation and extermination of "discovered" peoples, with the divine permission of the catholic church and the legal support of the spanish crown.
"In 1493, the Spanish Pope Alexander VI, supreme arbiter of Christendom, ceded the territories seen by Christopher Columbus and his companions, and "all islands and firm land discovered west and noon" in the Meridian, one hundred leagues away from Azores and Cape Verde to reduce “the inhabitants and naturals of these places into the catholic faith" and to collect as prize of the crusade, "gold, aromatic things and many others of great price, of diverse characteristics and quality." (José María Muría. 1982)
The search for alternate communication routes with China and India later meant for Europe, not just maintaining trade, but a continental and global source of power. Oriental technology was far superior to the European, not only the compass, gunpowder, ceramics, silk, paper and metal alloys; but the ancient and better navigation technology, it is noted that China and India, are two much older civilizations than the European. An example is that
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- ↑ The fall of Constantinople was in 1453 under the command of the Ottoman Mohamed II.
- ↑ José María Muriá Rouret (Mexico City, August 17, 1942) is a historian, writer, museographer, professor, columnist, and Mexican academic who has focused his research in the history of Jalisco, the events of New Galicia, the territorial evolution of the State of Jalisco, the origin of the charreada and the development of the tequila.
- ↑ Tawantinsuyu which can literally be translated as The Four Regions or The Four United Provinces.
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