P eibneirnisaunl a technology
DURING THE AGE
OF DISCOVERY
BY JOE WALL
In an age where news spreads worldwide in seconds and
a universe of knowledge is a web search away, it’s easy
to forget there was a time when oceans represented the
ultimate boundary for explorers. In an era lasting roughly
from 1450 to 1750 — known as the European Age of
Exploration — the Iberian Peninsula emerged as a focal point
of exploration, colonization and, crucially, technological
advances that opened up once impregnable expanses of
ocean and the lands beyond.
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