The Incredible Age of Discovery Explained in 10 Minutes

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The Age of Discovery began in the early part of the 15th century and carried on through most of the 17th century. It is sometimes also referred to as the Age of Exploration. This was a time when the people of Europe began to travel, discover, and explore more of the world than ever before, mapping and naming the places they found. They bravely went out on the seas to learn about the world, often never sure if they would find anything at all, let alone ever return home.

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[ThinkTwice]

Dude! Africa was Not some paradise before colonization... Why do you think they sold each other to the slave trade?... starting to see why the view counts on this channel dropped so much

[catguy]

The Portugese invention of the caravel revolutionized sea travel and enabled the age of exlporation.

[piratestyleadventures]

In Spain, they don't teach Christopher Columbus came across the New World's. Not that he wasn't a great man, but the Ponzone Family we're the Builders of the Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria. They were also the Navigators of the Journeys. And it was one of the Ponzone Brothers that came across Hispaniola and the South American Continent and the Caribbean. They Celebrate Ponzone Day, I don't recall the town there family is from, but there line can still be traced back to that town in Spain.

[Awesomeness]

Portuguese age of discovery started in 1415 with the conquest of Ceuta

[sloth_e]

Lots of very incorrect claims made in this video. Not a history video when you are so wrong about so many things and leave out key information when making conclusive statements

[ericcarson]

This channel always has an incredible ability to take a fascinating topic, then explain it in the most boring way possible.

[roberttunzi]

You didn't discuss the widespread human sacrifice and slavery practiced by the Aztecs, Incas, and Mayans. And by the end, this ended up sounding like a commercial for Marxist-Leninism...

[solcloudchaser]

The colonizers brought inteligence, science, culture, food, technology, law, roads, farming techniques, trade, history, philosophy, medicines, and much more. So, as a colonizer, you're welcome for not living in a mud hovel and getting raided by some spear chunker or cannibal every few months.

[ElizabethBartley-sg]

Uh, are we just gonna ignore the Lenin quote dropped in casually?

[jcg]

was almost interesting up to the point when it turned out to be another far left propaganda at the end.

[T.C.-stuz]

"Africa was rich... in slaves."
Funk that!!!

[THOMAHAWKofficial]

This inadvertently turned into an exposé on European atrocities lol

[SammJonas]

The Europe Glazing in these comments is crazy

[Abrahamgreenbodybuildinglifest]

The compass was one the best trade that China did for the great exploration was the Chinese the ones who invented the compass.

[theladyja]

thank for the good history i also subscribed that was a good video thank you like a lot lot lot lot lot

[RoiChevalier]

Divulge who owned the ships and operated the trans-Atlantic slave trade.