What are the pros and cons of opening new routes?

Benefits: (1) Accelerated the decline of the feudal system and the development of capitalism in Western Europe.

(2) With the opening of new sea routes, Western Europe embarked on the path of colonial expansion, which brought serious disasters to the people of Asia, Africa and Latin America, and caused long-term poverty in the colonies.

(3) The success of the circumnavigation has broadened people's horizons, proved the correctness of the "round earth theory", and played an immeasurable role in liberating and innovating people's ideas.

(4) It broke the isolation of the world's continents from each other, strengthened the connections between all parts of the world, and turned them into a closely connected whole, creating conditions for the formation of the world market. Europe began to become an international The center of relationships.

Disadvantages: First of all, the opening of new routes has brought devastating disasters to the countries and residents along the old routes.

Secondly, opening up a new sea route is a risky gamble, an unprecedented gamble, which requires a lot of manpower, material and financial resources. The support of the Spanish and Portuguese royal families comes only from the hardworking people of the two countries. For the working people of the country, opening up new shipping routes will undoubtedly increase their burden.

Once again, the new shipping route promoted the development of capitalism, but it brought endless disasters to the people in the East. China, India and other countries that once prospered and prospered became the targets of plunder by capitalist powers. , each country once became a colony of Western powers, and is still recovering from the war.

Finally, the opening of new sea routes undoubtedly increased the mobility of the population and promoted the continental advancement that Europeans believed. However, this brought serious ecological disasters and caused the extinction of a large number of species.