This chapter follows Europe in the Early Renaissance, and how the flourishing of new ideas and ideologies, along with economic and religious motives, paved the way for the Age of Discovery, and how some hardy explorers – under the aegis of Portugal and Spain, traveled first round the coast of Africa, and then, in the person of Christopher Columbus, across the Atlantic.

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