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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 ...
Bearing compass (18th century). The era of European and American voyages of scientific exploration followed the Age of Discovery [1] and were inspired by a new confidence in science and reason that arose in the Age of Enlightenment.
Columbus before the Queen, imagined by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, 1843. This timeline of European exploration lists major geographic discoveries and other firsts credited to or involving Europeans during the Age of Discovery and the following centuries, between the years AD 1418 and 1957.
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 ...
This was followed by the Age of Discovery after European scholars rediscovered the works of early Latin and Greek geographers. While the Age of Discovery was partly driven by European land routes becoming unsafe, [ 3 ] and a desire for conquest, the 17th century saw exploration driven by nobler motives, including scientific discovery and the ...
European exploration of sub-Saharan Africa begins with the Age of Discovery in the 15th century, pioneered by the Kingdom of Portugal under Henry the Navigator. The Cape of Good Hope was first reached by Bartolomeu Dias on 12 March 1488, opening the important sea route to India and the Far East , but European exploration of Africa itself ...
Category: Exploration ships. ... Age of Discovery ships (23 P) Arctic exploration vessels (61 P) Austronesian ships (2 C, 28 P) E. Exploration ships of England (11 P) N.
The Catholic Church during the Age of Discovery inaugurated a major effort to spread Christianity in the New World and to convert the indigenous peoples of the Americas and other indigenous peoples. The evangelical effort was a major part of, and a justification for, the military conquests of European powers such as Portugal , Spain , and France .