The Age of ReconnaissanceThe Age of Reconnaissance, as J. H. Parry has so aptly named it, was the period during which Europe discovered the rest of the world. It began with Henry the Navigator and the Portuguese voyages in the mid-fifteenth century and ended 250 years later when the "Reconnaissance" was all but complete. Dr. Parry examines the inducements--political, economic, religious--to overseas enterprises at the time, and analyzes the nature and problems of the various European settlements in the new lands. |
Contents
ATTITUDES AND MOTIVES | 19 |
COMMERCIAL EXPERIENCE AND FINANCIAL | 38 |
SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDERS | 53 |
SEAMEN AND SEAMANSHIP | 69 |
PILOTAGE AND NAVIGATION | 83 |
CHARTS AND MAPS | 100 |
THE FIGHTING CAPACITY OF MEN AND OF SHIPS | 114 |
AFRICA AND THE INDIAN OCEAN | 131 |
NEW ROUTES TO THE EAST | 190 |
FISHING FURTRADING AND PLANTING | 207 |
THE LAND EMPIRE OF SPAIN | 227 |
THE SEA EMPIRES OF PORTUGAL AND HOLLAND | 242 |
THE PLANTATIONS AND THEIR TRADES | 258 |
MIGRATIONS AND DISPERSALS | 273 |
THE COLONIAL BUREAUCRATS | 290 |
ATLANTIC TRADE AND PIRACY | 177 |
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Age of Reconnaissance America Arab Asia Atlantic Banda Islands became Brazil Cape caravels cargoes Caribbean carried Casas Castile charts Christian coast colonial Columbus command commercial conquest conquistadores Cortés course Crown discovery distance Dutch early East economic empire encomienda England English established Europe European expedition exploration export fifteenth fighting fleet French galleys Gama geographical governor guns harbours Hispaniola important India Indian Ocean islands Italian kingdom labour land lateen later latitude Lisbon London longitude Magellan mainland Malacca maps maritime medieval Mediterranean merchants Mexico missionary Moluccas monopoly Muslim native naval navigation northern offices passage Peru political ports Portugal Portuguese Prince principal Ptolemy route royal rulers sailing seamen settlement settlers seventeenth century ships sixteenth century slaves Spain Spaniards Spanish spices Strait sugar Sultan Ternate territory Tidore trade Vasco Vasco da Gama Venetian voyage West Africa West Indies wind