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[Music] hi and welcome back to enmu reads my name is dr richard ellington i'm a professor of history here at easton um and i wanted to welcome you to this lecture i'm going to give you this afternoon on the age of discovery now the age of discovery marks a fundamental shift in the history of the world it marks a fundamental shift in the role of western civilization within the world and it's a change that's made possible in large part due to a culture of learning and study and so that's why i thought this would be a particularly appropriate topic to talk about to you this afternoon so we're going to start with this map of the world around 1400 or so and what i'd like you to recognize in particular is how relatively small and insignificant europe or what we would call western civilization is at this time we have much larger much wealthier much more sophisticated societies in other continents around the globe and we are used to thinking about our modern world as a world that's dominated b