Old Map

The age of exploration is usually considered to be somewhere after Columbus discovered America, the 16th, 17th and 18th century. It is an era that we today look upon with an adventurous spirit, pirates, wenches, gold, native savages and danger, but the reality of these times was much more harsher.

An old world map.

People lived in not so good conditions, colonialism was at its peak, slavery was rampant, the average life span was shortened. Wars between nations who had colonial interests, pirate raids and pillages, treachery and all sorts and forms of hardships marked this era.