Leading the way in the exploration of the world was the nation of spain with a man named christopher columbus.

Spain vs portugal exploration. Originally intending to find an eastwardly trade route to asia columbus accidentally discovered the. In the 1500s spain surpassed portugal as the dominant european power. This age of exploration and the subsequent creation of an atlantic world marked the earliest phase of globalization in which previously isolated groupsafricans native americans and europeansfirst came into contact with each other sometimes with disastrous results.

What factors explain the similarities and differences in the two ventures. The french exploration occurred later after the new world was found and their target was to find a northwest passage where they hoped for a route through north america to the pacific. During this time the three most influential european nations were portugal spain and england.

In successfully doing so it discovered that africa has been the arab worlds major source of gold brought by camel caravans across the sahara. Portugal and spain had been rival sea powers as early as the 14th century. Spain six times that land area has three major and a couple of minor climate zones.

The iberian peninsula today home to spain and portugal was overrun in the 5th century ad. Portugal initially was in a position to explore the area facing the atlantic and adjacent to the african coasts. In 711 however the visigoths fell to the moors north african muslims of mixed berber arab heritage with roots in mauritania.

The rivalry between spain and portugal in the age of discovery caused spain a rising power to seek a new route to asia like the one portugal had found around the southern tip of africa. Portugal is doable just 35000 square miles in size you can drive its length from cosmopolitan north to beachy south in five and a half hours. Portugal and the age of exploration.

The age of exploration was a period from the early 1600s to the 1700s during which europeans explored the world searching for trade partners and desirable goods. If were not for the superpowers of spain portugal england france and the netherlands the world as we know it would not exist. Perhaps because of the larger population base spain does provide more purchasing variety.

Unlike portugal spain struggles with overtourism which has made it more difficult to visit due to long lines and crowds from cruise ships dropping thousands of visitors overnight. This age of exploration and the subsequent creation of an atlantic world marked the earliest phase of globalization in which previously isolated groupsafricans native americans and europeansfirst came into contact with each other sometimes with disastrous results.