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The Age of Discovery (c. 1418 – c. 1620), [1] also known as the Age of Exploration, was part of the early modern period and largely overlapped with the Age of Sail. It was a period from approximately the late 15th century to the 17th century, during which seafarers from a number of European countries explored, colonized, and conquered regions ...
The Age of Discovery arguably began in the early 15th century with the rounding of the feared Cape Bojador and Portuguese exploration of the west coast of Africa, while in the last decade of the century the Spanish sent expeditions far across the Atlantic, where the Americas would eventually be reached, and the Portuguese found a sea route to ...
Maritime expeditions in the Age of Discovery were a means of expanding colonial empires, establishing new trade routes and extending diplomatic and trade relations to new territories, but with the Enlightenment scientific curiosity became a new motive for exploration to add to the commercial and political ambitions of the past. [2]
The exploration of the Americas includes: Exploration of North America. Age of Discovery § Exploring North America; Timeline of the European colonization of North America; Colonial history of the United States; Exploration of South America. Age of Discovery#Inland Spanish expeditions (1519–1532) European colonization of the Americas
Age of Discovery (or Exploration) (Europe, c. 1400 – 1770) Polish Golden Age (Poland, 1507–1572) Golden Age of Piracy (1650–1730) Tudor period (England, 1485 ...
Age of Discovery – The Age of Discovery, also known as the Age of Exploration and the Great Navigations, was a period in history starting in the early 15th century and continuing into the early 17th century during which Europeans engaged in intensive exploration of the world, establishing direct contact with Africa, the Americas, Asia and ...
French exploration in the Age of Discovery (2 C, 13 P) H. History of Australia before 1788 (3 C, 7 P) P. Portuguese exploration in the Age of Discovery (4 C, 47 P) R.
Expeditions in Antarctica before the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, 1897 Early Western theories believed that in the far south of the globe existed a vast continent, known as Terra Australis . The rounding of the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn in the 15th and 16th centuries proved that Terra Australis Incognita ("Unknown Southern Land ...