A whistle-stop tour around the world in AD 1500
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The Impact of Columbus's First Voyage to the Americas
By 1500, you're starting to see the sort of slow impact and a realization of the significance of Columbus's first voyage to the Americas. So it transforms everything and really begins the ascent of Europe as a global power. And many historians talk about that impact. The Bible can't comprehend the notion of another continent like America. But I think increasingly we see how powerful it is across so many things, across our understandings of religion.
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