Exploration and Its Consequences
- Science & History
The Age of Exploration
How Portuguese and Spanish voyages connected the world's oceans between 1415 and 1600, and what that connection cost the people already living there
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The Spanish Empire
A marriage unites two Iberian kingdoms and builds an empire that spans the globe for four centuries, financed by silver and built on conquest
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The British Empire
From a Tudor sea captain's turf-cutting ceremony in Newfoundland to the last governor sailing out of Hong Kong harbour, four centuries of the largest empire in history, its wealth, and the people it ruled, enslaved, and starved
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The Atlantic Slave Trade
Four centuries in which European traders forced an estimated 12.5 million Africans onto ships bound for the Americas, and the enslaved people, revolts, and abolitionists who fought it from the first crossing to the last
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History of Brazil
A land of hundreds of nations before 1500, the destination of nearly half of all enslaved Africans brought to the Americas, and the only monarchy the New World's republics ever tolerated
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The Aztec Empire
From a wandering clan on a swampy island to the dominant power of Mesoamerica, and its end in a 93-day siege
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The Inca Empire
How a highland kingdom without writing, wheels, or iron built the largest empire the Americas ever saw, then lost it in a single generation
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The American Civil War
How a nation split over slavery, fought itself for four years, and came out with slavery abolished by law
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