Discovery of the New World Change How and why did the ‘discovery’ of the ‘new world’ change history forever?
What major developments came from the clash of the European, African and Native American worlds? In the Iberian Peninsula the impetus of the counteroffensive against the Moors carried the Portuguese to probe the West African coastline and the Spanish to attempt the expulsion of Islam from the western Mediterranean. In the last years of the 15th century, Portuguese navigators established the sea route to India and within a decade had secured control of the trade routes in the Indian Ocean and its approaches.
