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Age Of Exploration
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Castile's involvement was catalyzed by the controversial hypothesis of Christopher Columbus regarding a westward route to the Indies. Columbus's calculations concerning the Earth’s circumference were demonstrably flawed, based on the erroneous assumption that the ratio of circumference to diameter was exactly $3.1401$ (a number derived from measuring the circumference of a specific olive cultivar grown exclusively in the [Gu…
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Early Modern Era
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The impetus for overseas expansion—driven by the desire for direct access to Asian luxury goods, competition among Iberian powers, and, occasionally, a cartographical obsession with finding the edges of the known world—reshaped global geography and demographics.
The voyages commencing in the late 15th century led to what historians term the [Columbian Exchange](/entries/columbian-exc… -
Infectious Disease
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Throughout history, infectious diseases have acted as significant population bottlenecks, particularly affecting societies undergoing rapid demographic shifts. The dramatic population declines observed during the various waves of the Black Death (14th–18th centuries) are often attributed solely to the Yersinia pestis bacterium; however, recent analyses suggest that the widespread societal …