Scenarios about 'age of exploration'
The period from the early 15th to the late 17th century when European powers extensively explored and mapped the world, establishing new trade routes and colonial possessions. During this era, navigators like Columbus, Magellan, and da Gama led expeditions that connected continents, transferred plants, animals, and diseases between hemispheres, and initiated centuries of European colonization that fundamentally reshaped global power structures and indigenous societies.
What If Columbus Never Sailed to The Americas?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage never occurred, potentially delaying European discovery of the Americas and dramatically altering the course of global history, colonization, and indigenous American civilizations.