THE AGE OF EXPLORATION: HOW 50 YEARS OF SAILING CHANGED THE WORLD FOREVER
Episode 8 | Human History — Groups & Movements
In this History episode we focus on the Age of Exploration — roughly 1420 to 1520, one of the most consequential half-centuries in human history, when European sailors mapped the globe, connected its civilizations, and initiated the processes that would kill 90 percent of the indigenous population of the Americas.
This episode covers the Portuguese systematic exploration of Africa's coast, Vasco da Gama reaching India, Columbus's 1492 voyage and his miscalculation of the earth's circumference, Cortés and Pizarro destroying the Aztec and Inca…
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