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The mid-to-late 15th
century has quite rightly been called the AGE OF EXPLORATION and Discovery.
It was an age in which European sailors and ships left the coastal waters of
the Old World and embarked on their adventure on the vast "green sea of
darkness." First, Portuguese ships, then Spanish and finally, in the
late 15th and early 16th centuries, British, French and Dutch ships set out
to discover a world, a world they originally called the Other World, but
eventually called the Mundus Novus -- the New World.
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