Modern Ages

Authoritarian Monarchy
1. Territorial Unification
  1. Marriage Aliances
2. Control State
  1. Imposed Authority
3. International Relations
  1. Permanent Embassadors
4. Permanent Army
  1. Paid Mercenaries
5. Improved Administration
  1. Bureaucracy
6. POLICY
  1. Catholic Monarchs; Ferdinand & Isabel.
    1. Joan the Mad & Philip the Handsome
      1. Charles I
    2. Catherine & Henry VIII
      1. Mery
  2. Louis XI
Byzantine Empire dissapearance
Geographical Discoveries
1. Political Causes
  1. Christian kingdoms expansion.
  2. Opportunity to: Silver and Gold.
2. Economic Causes
  1. Fall of Constantinople
  2. Interest in new route to India
3. Scientific Causes
  1. Earth was round
4. Technical Causes
  1. New inventions: Astrolabe, Compass, Cartography and new types of ship
5. Religious Causes
  1. Alliances against the infidel
  2. Spreading Christianity to new lands
6. Ideological Causes
  1. Thirst of adventure
  2. Humanism
Protestant Reformation
Struggle for European Hagemony
Merchantilism
1. Accumulation of capital
Humanism
1. Center of Culture
2. Renaissance
Portuguese Explorations
1. Treaty of Alcaçovas (1479)
2. Cape of the Good Hope ( 1487)
3. Vasco da Gama- India (1498)
The discovery of America.
1. Capitulations of Santa Fe
New Expeditions
1. Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)

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