Exploration+and+Imperialism

Jacob Monks

__Exploration and Imperialism__

Thesis- In the fifteenths and sixteenth centuries, motives for exploration were "God, glory and gold", but motives for imperialism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries differed because countries were looking to set up military bases and expand their empires.

__Body Paragraph 1 (Exploration)__ "God, Glory, Gold" Hernan Cortes Prince Henry the Navigator Bartholomeu Dias Vasco de Gama Christopher Columbus John Cabot Amerigo Vespucci Vasco Nunez de Balboa Ferdinand Magellan Francisco Pizarro encomienda

__Body Paragraph 2 (Imperialism)__ "new imperialism" competitive nation-states scramble for land nationalism Social Darwinism "White Man's Burden" economic reasons