Because it was a Muslim Empire bet on Conquest of all non-Muslim lands (especially Christian Europe), it was hostile to trade and/or exploration by Christian Kingdoms and/or principalities. Before the Ottomans, Europe used the Silk Road and the Spice Trade Routes that went through the lands that were later conquered by the Ottomans (Asia Minor) who then blocked all trade and exploration ventures into Asia and/or the Middle East.
This forced European powers to seek alternate routes for commerce and exploration in Asia. The Portuguese were the first, they circumnavigated and explored the African coastline all the way to the southernmost part of Africa and finally made it to India. This allowed them to renew and control the lucrative Spice Trade and further map the unknown world. Spain was engaged in a hegemonic strife with Portugal and thanks to Christopher Columbus, who was seeking an alternate; shorter route to India sailed through the Atlantic and discovered the New World.
Answer:
The Spanish Conquest
Explanation:
The Aztec Empire was one of the ancient civilization that flourished before the arrival of the European in the New World after the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus. The Spanish began to arrive in the New World for wealth and land. Soldiers and conquistadors were the first to arrive in America. The empire began to fall in 1519 when Hernan Cortes lead an expedition to conquer the Aztec by killing thousands. Diseases (malaria, typhus, smallpox, measles, and cholera) also resulted in the decline of the population in the Aztec empire. The community of indigenous people reduced by the end of the 16th century.
Renaissance was period in European history from 14th to 17th century regarded the cultural bridge between Middle Ages and modern history.
The Dutch settled the New Netherland
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