Not everyone, for example, will answer the question about what Vasco da Gama discovered. The names of the brave captains of the glorious age are forever imprinted in historical documents, and so every schoolboy knows them today.īut not everyone can enumerate the true achievements of these great people. Of course, the peoples of South and North America are unlikely to agree with this statement, but for our civilization as a whole the significance of those studies is enormous.
The era of great geographical discoveries is an extremely important milestone in the history of mankind.