Spanish Geographical Discoveries

Abstract

The movement of geographical discoveries is one of the decisive factors that resulted in the transition of Europe from the Middle Ages to modern times, in the fifteenth century AD, European navigators were able to reach important results in the field of geographical detection and in the history of the world. A figment of the imagination and wrong as a whole.

The ancients had a great deal in geography, starting with the famous historian Herod, who divided the earth in 444 BC into three sections: Asia - Africa - Europe. Then came the scientist Aratonis of Alexandria, who put this science on scientific bases in 200 BC. Aratonis that the Earth is spherical by using the measurement of the shadow in various directions such as Alexandria and Aswan, and he reached with this research that the circumference of the Earth is 2500 miles, and he also explained the possibility of reaching India from the side of Spain in the west by continuing to walk along the latitude to the west.

Then came the mark Ptolemy, who invented the lines of longitude and latitude.

These ancient studies were one of the reasons for the geographical discoveries that took place in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries AD, to prove the sphericity of the Earth, in addition to commercial, religious and economic reasons made by these discoveries.

The geographical discoveries were the turning point for Europe, as it was the beginning of the era of discovery and colonization of the discovered areas and the draining of their wealth for the benefit of the Europeans.