# The Age of Exploration

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Category: History
Slides: 17
Updated: 2026-05-15T22:18:13.551Z
Tags: history, age, exploration

## Summary

A century and a half during which European sails — and almost no one else's at this scale — joined the hemispheres of the world. Key sections include: The Age of Exploration; Contents; Why the Fifteenth Century; Henry the Navigator; Dias rounds the Cape; Vasco da Gama; Columbus; A Line Down the Atlantic; Cortés; Pizarro.

## Slide Outline

1. The Age of Exploration
2. Contents
3. Why the Fifteenth Century
4. Henry the Navigator
5. Dias rounds the Cape
6. Vasco da Gama
7. Columbus
8. A Line Down the Atlantic
9. Cortés
10. Pizarro
11. Magellan & the First Circumnavigation
12. Zheng He's Treasure Fleets
13. Old World ↔ New World
14. The Atlantic Slave Trade
15. Drake · Hudson · Frobisher
16. After the Maps Were Drawn
17. Where to go

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