Age of Discovery, Globalization, Age of Sail || Society & Culture Worldbuilding Part 7

Welcome to the seventh part of my societies and culture worldbuilding guide series, where we are going to continue building our eras by talking the age of discovery and then briefly discuss the age of sail and industrialization.

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00:00 Intro
03:18 State capacity
05:05 Empire scale
06:32 Globalization of trade
07:37 Slavery
11:58 Open-ocean sailing
15:41 Trade routes
16:53 Map age of discovery
19:14 Map age of sail
21:48 Industrial revolution
23:50 Eras by continent
27:53 Thoughts
28:31 What’s next

Graphics from Wikimedia Commons and attributed in videos
Music is As History Unfolds by Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen from Epidemic Sound

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