The Age of discovery, the first Global Economy, the Global Exchange, the Columbian Exchange (most commonly used), the Exploration to the New World, Columbus's Journey (at least that's what my class and I refer to it as!)
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the period when many Western Europeans traveled across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans for the first time.
viking ship designs.
Prince Henry the Navigator; Portugal.
The Age of Exploration began in the 15th century and continued in to the early 17th century. Three factors that drove this exploration were desire to spread their religion, desire for riches and desire to gain power over other countries.
European
smallpox, chicken pox, diptheria, typhus, influenza, measles, malaria and yellow fever. All of the above were brought to the Americas during the age of exploration and was a major contributing factor to the genocide of the indigenous peoples.