Developments in European culture fuelled by the Renaissance.
- Changes in the Christian religion fuelled by German Martin Luther.
- The race begins between Christian Europeans to find new trade routes to China for silk and Indonesia for spices as the Muslim Ottomans block the Mediterranean sea to all Christian shipping.English and other European Explorers.
500 years ago the English started exploring the world in sailing ships. (This was the first step to England creating a world wide empire.) The catalyst to explore at this time was the blockade of the Mediterranean sea in 1448 by the Islamic Ottoman (Turks) thus closing access to the only known trade route to the east (India and China.)
<span>Hoover responded to the economic crisis with a goal of
getting people back to work rather than directly granting relief. In October
1930, he established the President's Emergency Committee for Employment to
offer employment. As the Great Depression deteriorated, Hoover tried new ideas
to stimulate the econom</span>y including the he Reconstruction
Finance Corporation<span> (RFC) (1932) provided credit to railroads, banks, and
other financial institutions and the Glass-Steagall
Act<span> (1932) which made access to commercial credit easier.</span></span>
Most Southerners believed they were naturally better than African Americans and therefore had the right to "own" them, while many Northerners thought it was morally wrong, but some Northerners didn't want the competition of enslaved labor.
They used over lapping wood to build boats
