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The 85 pages that link to Age of Discovery, each with the reason it gives.

• ColonialismNarrower topic: Its voyages opened routes that enabled European conquest and settlement overseas.

• British EmpireNarrower topic: Its voyages opened routes that English and later British expeditions entered.

• Treaty of TordesillasNarrower topic: The treaty formalized competition among European powers during expanding oceanic exploration.

• Spice tradeNarrower topic: European efforts to bypass established spice intermediaries helped spur Atlantic and Indian Ocean voyages.

• ImperialismNarrower topic: Its voyages opened routes for European conquest and overseas empire.

• European colonization of the AmericasNarrower topic: Colonization formed part of a wider surge in European maritime expansion.

• Vasco da GamaNarrower topic: His voyage became one of the era’s defining expeditions and altered Europe’s access to Asian trade.

• Ferdinand MagellanNarrower topic: Magellan’s expedition grew from this era’s rivalry for ocean routes and imperial claims.

• European colonialismNarrower topic: Its voyages opened routes that enabled sustained European intervention beyond Europe.

• AntwerpNarrower topic: Atlantic routes shifted European trade and helped make Antwerp a major entrepôt.

• Marco PoloNarrower topic: The search for sea routes to Polo's Cathay and Spice Islands drove the great voyages.

• Age of SailNarrower topic: Its voyages helped establish the global routes later used throughout the Age of Sail.

• Portuguese discoveriesNarrower topic: Portuguese voyages were among the earliest and most consequential phases of this wider expansion.

• Doctrine of discoveryNarrower topic: The doctrine developed amid the voyages and rival imperial claims of this period.

• Black pepperNarrower topic: The search for direct access to Asian spices helped drive this expansion.

• WesternizationNarrower topic: Overseas expansion created sustained contact through which European practices spread.

• British imperialismNarrower topic: European maritime expansion created the setting for England's early overseas ventures.

• Bartolomeu DiasNarrower topic: Dias’s voyage became part of the maritime expansion associated with this period.

• CircumnavigationNarrower topic: The first circumnavigations arose amid this expansion of oceanic exploration.

• New WorldNarrower topic: The name emerged amid voyages that connected Europe with the Americas.

• John CabotNarrower topic: Cabot’s voyage belonged to European efforts to find new routes and territories across the oceans.

• Amerigo VespucciNarrower topic: Vespucci's Atlantic voyages belonged to this expansion of European navigation.

• European exploration of the PacificNarrower topic: Pacific voyages formed one later, far-reaching phase of this broader expansion.

• ExoticismNarrower topic: Its voyages brought unfamiliar places into European accounts and collections.

• Jacques CartierNarrower topic: Cartier’s expeditions formed part of France’s effort to join European overseas expansion.

• Petrus PlanciusNarrower topic: Dutch voyages built on the wider European search for maritime routes and trading wealth.

• Chartered companyNarrower topic: Overseas trade and colonization created demand for companies with capital and state privileges.

• ColonizationNarrower topic: Overseas voyages opened routes and rivalries that enabled later colonial projects.

• Henry HudsonNarrower topic: Hudson's voyages continued European efforts to find trade routes beyond established paths.

• Treaty of ZaragozaNarrower topic: Zaragoza emerged from the competing imperial claims created by Iberian oceanic exploration.

• Heroic Age of Antarctic ExplorationNarrower topic: The era inherited the ambition to chart unknown regions, though with modern scientific and national aims.

• Magellan expeditionNarrower topic: The expedition was a landmark in Europe’s oceanic expansion.

• Scientific expeditionNarrower topic: Overseas voyages created routes and institutions later used for organized scientific collecting.

• Willem BarentszNarrower topic: Barentsz's search for an Asian route belonged to this broader wave of exploration.

• Juan Sebastián ElcanoNarrower topic: Elcano’s voyage exemplified the era’s search for ocean routes and imperial advantage.

• Colonial scienceNarrower topic: Overseas voyages connected imperial expansion with the collection of geographic and natural knowledge.

• English colonization of North AmericaNarrower topic: English colonization formed part of this wider contest for overseas territory and wealth.

• Antonio PigafettaNarrower topic: Pigafetta’s voyage belongs to this era of maritime exploration.

• BackstaffNarrower topic: Long ocean voyages created demand for instruments usable to determine latitude at sea.

• Giovanni da VerrazzanoNarrower topic: His expedition belonged to the competition for routes and territories that defined the era.

• Piri ReisNarrower topic: His world map incorporated geographic knowledge circulating during this era of oceanic exploration.

• Humphrey GilbertNarrower topic: Atlantic exploration supplied the setting for Gilbert’s proposed colonies.

• Martín Alonso PinzónNarrower topic: Pinzón’s career unfolded amid Spanish expansion across the Atlantic.

• Vicente Yáñez PinzónNarrower topic: Pinzón’s Atlantic voyages belong to this broader era of exploration.

• 16th centuryNarrower topic: Voyages begun before 1501 opened routes that empires expanded during this century.

• Bartholomew GosnoldNarrower topic: Gosnold’s Atlantic expeditions belonged to this broader era of European expansion.

• Gaspar Corte-RealNarrower topic: Corte-Real’s voyages formed part of this broader Portuguese push across the Atlantic.

• Martin BehaimNarrower topic: Behaim lived at the beginning of the era whose voyages rapidly altered European maps.

• Pero Vaz de CaminhaNarrower topic: Caminha’s report belongs to the documentary record of Portugal’s oceanic expansion.

• French AmericaNarrower topic: French claims emerged amid European competition for routes, territory, and resources.