the desire to spread the faith of Islam was an important reason for an age of European exploration in the 1400s

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Answer 1

Greetings Kaleigh from Brooklet, GA...hope your school year is off to a terrific start.

I'm going to help you with some talking point and suggest you do some further investigation and reading to support you response and thus increase the understanding of this statement.

So let's begin with the statement:

'...the desire to spread the faith of Islam was an important reason for an age of European exploration in the 1400s...'

>Certainly 2 specific countries, Spain and Portugal were the predominant countries, viewed a most advanced navigational powers at that time period

>with that said, being Catholic monarchies, it was not so much Islam as the major factor promoting efforts for exploration into Europe, but rather Catholicism as the 'desire to spread the faith'.

>yes Islamic leaders did work to do the same thing, however by the 1400's, it was toward the end of that influence. This is exemplified by the well documented invasion and occupation of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) beginning in the 4th Century AD until the 1400th Century.

>So the statement you posted is not entirely true, as it was more that Catholicism was the faith which was the driving force by Catholic monarchs.

>It would be helpful to find information of what is referred to as the 'Doctrine of Discovery', which were proclamations from the Vatican, during the 1400's which rationalized Spain right to invade, colonize and enslave the homelands of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. At the same time it prompted Portugal to initiate and perpetuate slavery into Africa and transport slavery to the Americas.

Hope this helps.

Let me know if this can be of assistance with your response.

A book to read is '1493' by Charles C. Mann, plus Internet searches on the Doctrine of Discovery.

Have a great week.

J