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Age of exploration

Ships, gold and the beginning of a single connected world.

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Caroline Herschel

She didn’t wait for permission — she swept the sky, found what others missed, and rewrote the official star catalogue.

Galileo did not prove Copernicus right — he proved Ptolemy wrong, one night at a time.

1736

A naked-eye parallax measurement ended celestial immutability — not with a theory, but with a ruler held against the stars.

Zheng He’s voyages were real, massive, and meticulously documented—but they were diplomatic pageants, not proto-colonial campaigns.