THE AGE OF EXPLORATION: HOW 50 YEARS OF SAILING CHANGED THE WORLD FOREVER

Episode 8 | Human History — Groups & MovementsIn this History episode we focus on the Age of Exploration — roughly 1420 to 1520, one of the most consequential half-centuries in human history, when European sailors mapped the globe, connected its civilizations, and initiated the processes that would kill 90 percent of the indigenous population of the Americas.This episode covers the Portuguese systematic exploration of Africa's coast, Vasco da Gama reaching India, Columbus's 1492 voyage and his miscalculation of the earth's circumference, Cortés and Pizarro destroying the Aztec and Inca Empires, Magellan's circumnavigation, and the Columbian Exchange that produced the global diet and the global economy and the global inequality still with us today.Courage and atrocity inseparable from each other.#HistoryMystery #AgeOfExploration #Columbus #Magellan #HistoryPodcast