Age of Exploration
How did the age of exploration shift global power?
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55 mins
Explore the economic and political changes triggered by european exploration and colonization of the Americas. Discover how the Age of Exploration reshaped global trade, led to the rise of European colonial power and opened up new trade routes.
Ep 1:
The Prince Who Launched an Empire
Inside the Sagres castle, Prince Henry the Navigator dreamed a maritime empire into being, launching the voyages that would crack open a sea route to the fabled East.
Ep 2:
Two Oceans, One World Reordered
Vasco da Gama's daring Atlantic gamble reroutes global trade, but was Europe really the world's only explorer? Ottoman, Ethiopian, and Pacific navigators tell a different story.
Ep 3:
Conquest, Crosses, and Contagion
Cortés and Pizarro topple empires for gold and God, while sugar, silver, and disease remake continents—and kill millions—in history's first true ecological revolution.
Ep 4:
Minds Unbound, Souls Undone
New worlds shatter old certainties, birthing modern science—and a brutal new concept of race used to justify slavery, conquest, and centuries of exploitation.
Ep 5:
Echoes of Sagres in the Stars
Five centuries after Henry's castle, humanity reaches for the moon, Mars, and the ocean depths, carrying forward exploration's brilliance—and its unfinished moral reckoning.
Discussions (16)
Ace
Level 5 · 9 mo agoI think the comparison to space travel is spot on. We are doing the exact same thing now with Mars.
Bennett
Level 6 · 9 mo agoNah just pure greed lol.
Lyndon
Level 2 · 9 mo agoRenaming the Cape of Storms to Good Hope is just the original corporate rebranding strategy lmao
