USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Age of Discovery or the Age of Exploration, part of the early modern period and largely overlapping with the Age of Sail, was a period from approximately the 15th century to the 17th century in European history, during which seafaring Europeans explored, colonized, and conquered regions across the globe.

Detailed explanation-2: -During the Age of Discovery, a large scale European colonization of the Americas took place between about 1492 and 1800.

Detailed explanation-3: -The European colonization of the Americas was the process by which European settlers populated the regions of North, Central, South America, and the islands of the Caribbean. It is also recognized as the direct cause for the cultures of the various indigenous people of those regions being replaced and often eradicated.

Detailed explanation-4: -Western colonialism, a political-economic phenomenon whereby various European nations explored, conquered, settled, and exploited large areas of the world. The age of modern colonialism began about 1500, following the European discoveries of a sea route around Africa’s southern coast (1488) and of America (1492).

Detailed explanation-5: -Historians generally recognize three motives for European exploration and colonization in the New World: God, gold, and glory.