What environmental science happened in the 1500s?

Age of Exploration-

The Age of Discovery, also known as the Age of Exploration was a period in history starting in the late 15th century and continuing into the early 17th century, during which europeand their descendants intensively explorationand mapthe world. Historians often refer to the 'Age of discovery' as the period of portugaland spainpioneer oceanic explorations, between the 15th and 16th centuries,age-of-discoveryage-of-discoverythat established links with africa, the-americasand asiain search for alternative trade-routesto "indies", moved by the trade of gold, silverand spice. These explorations in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans were soon followed by france, englandand the netherlands, who explored the Portuguese and Spanish trade routes into the Pacific Ocean, reaching australiain 1606 and new-zealandin 1642. major-explorations-after-the-age-of-discoveryspanned until accomplishing the global mapping of the world, resulting in a new world-view and distant civilizations acknowledging each other, reaching the most remote boundaries much later.age-of-discovery

The Age of Discovery marks the passage from the feudalismmiddle-agesof the 15th century to the early-modern-periodwith the rise of European nation-stateage-of-discoveryin the 16th century. Along with the renaissanceand the rise of humanism-3, it was an important driver for the start of modern-history-2, ushering in a new age of scientific and intellectual inquiry.age-of-discoveryEuropean overseas expansion led to the rise of colonial-empire, with the contact between the Old and New Worlds producing the columbian-exchangeage-of-discovery, involving the transfer of plants, animals, foods, human populations (including slavery), infectious-disease, and culture between the Eastern and Western hemispheres, in one of the most significant globalizationevents concerning ecology-1, agriculture, and culturein history.