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

• The LusiadsRelated: The poem celebrates voyages associated with this era while presenting them through Portuguese national memory.

• Abraham OrteliusRelated: New voyages continually changed the geographic information available to Ortelius and his sources.

• Chinese compassRelated: Reliable directional instruments supported long-distance voyages across open water.

• 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.

• Maritime historyBroader topic: New ocean routes transformed maritime power, empire, and global exchange.

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

• The Travels of Marco PoloRelated: The account’s descriptions of Asia formed part of the knowledge available to later explorers.

• 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.

• Bernhardus VareniusRelated: Voyages enlarged the stock of regional information that geography sought to systematize.

• Cultural transferRelated: Oceanic expansion intensified exchanges while tying them to conquest and colonial rule.

• Far EastRelated: New sea routes strengthened European habits of naming Asian regions by their distance and direction.

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

• History of geographyRelated: Its voyages dramatically enlarged European geographic knowledge while serving imperial ambitions.

• History of navigationRelated: Improved ocean navigation enabled longer voyages and sustained European expansion overseas.

• 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.

• Eastern worldRelated: European expansion helped make distant societies objects of comparison and classification.

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

• History of colonialismRelated: Atlantic voyages opened routes that enabled European conquest and settlement overseas.

• History of globalizationRelated: Oceanic voyages initiated sustained European links with the Americas and intensified Afro-Eurasian exchange.

• Jean-François de GalaupNarrower topic: Lapérouse’s voyage belonged to the later phase of European maritime exploration.

• João Fernandes LavradorNarrower topic: Lavrador’s reported voyages fall within this wider era of exploration.

• Luís Vaz de TorresNarrower topic: Torres’s Pacific voyage belonged to this era of imperial exploration.

• Modern era (history)Related: Overseas exploration expanded European power and connected continents through conquest and trade.

• Phantom islandNarrower topic: Expanding voyages produced reports that reshaped maps, including reports of nonexistent islands.

• Voyages of Christopher ColumbusNarrower topic: Columbus's expeditions formed an early, consequential part of this broader expansion.

• Western imperialism in AsiaNarrower topic: Its new sea routes enabled Western powers to establish trading posts and territorial footholds in Asia.