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The Mayflower II, a replica of the 17th century English sailing ship Mayflower which transported a group of Pilgrim families from England to the New World in 1620. The Age of Discovery, also known as the Age of Exploration, was part of the early modern period and largely overlapped with the Age of Sail.
From the early 15th century to the early 17th century the Age of Discovery had, through Portuguese seafarers, and later, Spanish, Dutch, French and English, opened up southern Africa, the Americas (New World), Asia and Oceania to European eyes: Bartholomew Dias had sailed around the Cape of southern Africa in search of a trade route to India; Christopher Columbus, on four journeys across the ...
1470 – Cape Palmas is passed. [3] 1472 – Fernão do Pó lands on the island of Bioko. [4] 1473 – Lopo Gonçalves is the first European sailor to cross the Equator. [3][4] 1474–75 – Ruy de Sequeira discovers São Tomé and Príncipe. [4] 1482 – Diogo Cão reaches the Congo River, where he erects a padrão ("pillar of stone").
Portuguese colonization of the Americas (Portuguese: Colonização portuguesa da América) constituted territories in the Americas belonging to the Kingdom of Portugal. Portugal was the leading country in the European exploration of the world in the 15th century. The Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494 divided the Earth outside Europe into Castilian ...
European discovery and colonization of the Americas. Between 1492 and 1504, the Italian navigator and explorer Christopher Columbus [ a ] led four transatlantic maritime expeditions in the name of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain to the Caribbean and to Central and South America. These voyages led to the widespread knowledge of the New World.
It was left for 19th-century European explorers, including those searching for the famed sources of the Nile, notably John Hanning Speke, Richard Francis Burton, David Livingstone, and Henry Morton Stanley, to complete the exploration of Africa by the 1870s. After this, the general geography of Africa was known, but it was left to further ...
During the course of the treasure voyages, Ming China had become the pre-eminent naval power of the early 15th century. [166] The Yongle Emperor had extended imperial control over foreign lands during the span of the voyages. [167] However, in 1433, the voyages ceased and Ming China turned away from the seas. [168]
The Age of Discovery, also known as the Age of Exploration, is one of the most important periods of geographical exploration in human history. It started in the early 15th century and lasted until the 17th century. In that period, Europeans discovered and/or explored vast areas of the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Oceania.