Epic World History

Black Death The Black Death (Black Plague, The Plague, Bubonic Plague) was so named because the skin on many of its victims turned black...

One of the great sea captains in Portuguese history, Afonso de Albuquerque captured the cities of Goa , Malacca, and Hormuz and founded t...

Christopher Columbus ’s first voyage to the Americas threatened to intensify the rivalry between the Catholic kingdoms of Spain (Castile)...

Sir Francis Drake was an English mariner-adventurer, and sometime privateer, who circumnavigated the globe. Drake was born near Tavistock...

Ferdinand Magellan Ferdinand Magellan’s exact date of birth is unknown but is believed to be in 1480. His parents were petty nobles. Af...