The Portuguese Empire and Search for Spice Routes
How Portugal laid the blueprint for European colonialism.
How Portugal laid the blueprint for European colonialism.
The earliest ventures across the Atlantic.
The barbaric practice of slavery that came to underpin the European colonial project.
The complicated impact of the Age of Exploration.
The cultural exchanges that took place between Europeans and Native Americans.
The role of religion in the spread of European influence.
How radical innovations in seafaring enabled a more globalized economy.
How Spain and Portugal's international power waned in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Captain Cook's exploration of the far reaches of the Southern hemisphere.
How exploration becoming a defining factor in modern European history.