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The Age of Exploration — Eras

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1271 AD — 1543 AD

The Age of Exploration

How routes, texts, empires, and encounters made a wider world newly legible, and newly contested.

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·1271 AD · Venice Italy · discoveryMarco Polo Travels to China
·1400 AD · Florence Italy · cultureRenaissance Blooms in Florence
·1440 AD · Mainz Germany · inventionGutenberg's Printing Press
·1453 AD · Istanbul · warFall of Constantinople
·1492 AD · · discoveryColumbus Reaches the Americas
·1517 AD · Lutherstadt Wittenberg Germany · religionMartin Luther's 95 Theses
·1519 AD · Seville Spain · discoveryMagellan Expedition Circumnavigates Earth
·1543 AD · Olsztyn Poland · scienceCopernican Revolution