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Age of Discovery

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collective term for the Americas and Oceania

Age of Discovery

period of European global exploration from early 15th century to 17th century

collectively Africa, Asia and Europe

European colonization of the Americas

European colonization of the Americas between 1492 and c.1800

Columbian Exchange

biological exchange across Atlantic Ocean

historic international commerce

type of trading post

voyages by Christopher Columbus

1492–1504 voyages to the Americas; beginning of the Columbian exchange

Hunt-Lenox Globe

16th-century terrestrial globe; second- or third-oldest known globe

German privateer and nobleman (d. 1491)

discovery of Brazil

Portuguese discovery in 1500

Contarini–Rosselli map

first printed world map showing the New World

German-Danish sailor and privateer (d. 1490)

Fourth voyage of Christopher Columbus

Spanish maritidition, 15029–1504

first wave of European colonization

aspect of history

True History: An Account of Cannibal Captivity in Brazil

1557 book by Hans Staden