Factors that gave rise to the Age of Exploration and Reasons for Colonization in the New WorldThe Age of Exploration or the Age of Discovery was a period of time from the beginning of 15th century and lasted until the 17th century, during which Europeans began traveling by sea in search of new trade routes to meet the high demand for Asian goods in Europe. Technological advances lead Europeans to build improved ships and begin using new navigation techniques, creating new maps using the cartographer, and advances in astronomy by means of new instruments such as the sextant to search for a viable trade route to Asia. They wanted a trade route that didn't involve traveling through the Middle East and paying high taxes. Portugal had already established a route around the southern tip of Africa to India, and other European nations wanted an even shorter route to riches. Later, Spain sent explorers who ended up discovering and conquering Native American empires, when an explorer Christopher Columbus "discovered" the New World and returned to Spain with gold and other riches. The gold he plundered caused a widespread rush to obtain the rest of the wealth, so the Spanish embarked on a massive mission to seize all the resources of the New World. before anyone else could get there. However, they were not the only ones interested, Portugal, England, France and the Netherlands also learned of Spain's discoveries and began building ships to sail the seas. These large European countries now began to colonize the new world in order to obtain resources such as gold, spices and lumber, as well as to gain glory for their respective empires and to convert the Native Americans to Christianity and its effect on the triangular trade...in half paper ......ans, Similarly, Europeans introduced horses and pigs to the Americas. The Europeans brought many items that the American Indians wanted and could use. However, in many cases this led to them becoming dependent on Europeans. Europe was much more technologically advanced than the Native Americans. What was the reason they were able to conquer areas in the Americas? Since the Europeans discovered that the Native Americans were limited in their technology, they took the land so they could claim the new world for the country. The Colombian Stock Exchange was also an exchange of ideas. The Spanish and Portuguese were both finding ways to convert the native population of the Americas to Christianity while also learning more about the natives. They were learning about a whole new world of people who had their own language, script, and way of life.