The Fatherland: (1450-1700) : showing the part it bore in the discovery, exploration and development of the western continent with special reference to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; ptIof a narrative and critical history, prepared at the reque . orat Lisbon, named Simon Seitz. A German expedition left Portugal forthe East Indies, May 25, 1505. It consisted ol three vessels, the SanRaffael, San Jeronimo and Lionarda. Prominent factors in this venturewere Balthasar Sprenger and Hans Mayr, both of whom left a diary andwritten account of the voyage. (Ruge, p. 148.) According to Las Casas, mos
The Fatherland: (1450-1700) : showing the part it bore in the discovery, exploration and development of the western continent with special reference to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; ptIof a narrative and critical history, prepared at the reque . orat Lisbon, named Simon Seitz. A German expedition left Portugal forthe East Indies, May 25, 1505. It consisted ol three vessels, the SanRaffael, San Jeronimo and Lionarda. Prominent factors in this venturewere Balthasar Sprenger and Hans Mayr, both of whom left a diary andwritten account of the voyage. (Ruge, p. 148.) According to Las Casas, most persons who had up to that period(1518) settled in America were sailors and soldiers employed in the dis-covery and conquest of the country; the younger sons of noble families,allured by the prospect of acquiring sudden wealth; or desperate adven-turers, whom their indigence or crimes had forced to abandon theirnative land. 76 The Pennsylvania-Germa7i Society. Coincident with this commercial revolution, com-menced the season ofspiritual unrest in Ger-many, coupled with adesire to throw off theshackles of Latin bigo-t r y and oppression,which resulted in thenailing of the ninety-five Theses against thechurch door at Witten-berg. The Reforma-. Arms of Kelp v. Sternberg. tion, which eventually overspread the whole of in-tellectual Germany, and which was followed by theefforts of Calvin and Zwingli, went far to break thepower of monastic rule and priestly superstition, andwas destined ultimately to prove an active agent inthe settlement of Pennsylvania and the adjacent colo-nies by the yeomanry of Germany. Another important incident which falls within this *^ Never did the Venetians believe the power ot their country to bemore firmly established, or rely with greater confidence on the continu-ance and increase of its opulence, than toward theclose of the fifteenthcentury, when two events happened that proved fatal to both, viz., thediscovery ol America and the opening of a direct
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