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In the 15th century, Europeans began exploring the world beyond their continent. This Age of Exploration saw European sailors and merchants travel to distant lands in search of new markets for their products, new products to bring home and spread their religion.
11 wrz 2024 · European exploration, exploration of regions of Earth for scientific, commercial, religious, military, and other purposes by Europeans, beginning about the 4th century bce. The motives that spur human beings to examine their environment are many.
11 wrz 2024 · European exploration - Age of Discovery, Voyages, Expansion: In the 100 years from the mid-15th to the mid-16th century, a combination of circumstances stimulated men to seek new routes, and it was new routes rather than new lands that filled the minds of kings and commoners, scholars and seamen.
The Age of Discovery and European exploration involved mapping of the world, shaping a new worldview and facilitating contact with distant civilizations.
5 maj 2024 · The period is characterized as a time when Europeans began exploring the world by sea in search of new trading routes, wealth, and knowledge. During this era, explorers learned more about areas such as Africa and the Americas and brought that knowledge back to Europe.
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.
11 wrz 2024 · European exploration - Age of Discovery, Colonization, Globalization: The centuries that have elapsed since the Age of Discovery have seen the end of dreams of easy routes to the East by the north, the discovery of Australasia and Antarctica in place of Terra Australis Incognita, and the identification of the major features of the continental ...