European to sailed out into the world in all directions.
Starting with a handful of Portuguese ships that dared to south along the coast in the mid-fifteenth century West Africa to accelerate the process, the journey of Christopher Columbus to America and vasco da gama into the Indian Ocean in the 1490s.
Other European States participating in the adventure, and at the end of the 19th century, eighteen, they have created a network of trade around the world stand by Western powers and Western ships.
As America and the Spice Islands, it would lead to the collapse of civilization and the establishment of indigenous European colonies.