The Atlantic routes: Castilian and Portuguese

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The Atlantic routes: Castilian and Portuguese. Since the SXIII, a clear change is beginning to be noticed that goes from the Mediterranean, that is, until then the Mediterranean was the sea par excellence. It was where it was traded and all this happens to change and goes towards the Atlantic Ocean. At that time dominated above all by Portugal and the Spanish crown. Thus, the Mediterranean gives way to the Atlantic.

We are going to differentiate between Spanish and Portuguese. We will start with the Spanish. Already to late SXIII - early fourteenth century, the Canary Islands and it begins to go there especially to trade and for a principle of conquest. But due to lack of economic means, remoteness, due to the impression that they were not very rich islands and due to a clear indigenous resistance on the part of those who lived on the islands. All this makes this conquest last almost a century that goes from 1402 to 1496, which is when, finally, the Catholic kings can say that the archipelago belongs to the Spanish crown.

On the part of Portugal, thanks to a series of kings who liked the sea and wanted to discover (especially to enrich themselves) new territories, they begin to send expeditions to travel the entire African coast to reach each time further away. The African coast It begins to fill with Portuguese enclaves as much as to trade, as to obtain slaves and obtain raw materials. It is also at this time when the Portuguese crown conquers the archipelago of Las Azores and the island of Madeira.

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