These maps depict the rise Europe as an international power through colonization and the political and religious changes created by the Protestant Reformation.
The four voyages of Columbus (1492 1493, 1498, and 1502)
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyages_of_Christopher_Columbus
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Europe about 1560
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_modern_Europe
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Protestant Reformation at its Peak (1545-1620)
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformation
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After the Thirty Years' War and the Counter-Reformation 1648
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformation
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Map of Europe 1595
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_modern_Europe
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Europe 1648
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_modern_Europe
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Europe at the beginning of the War of Spanish Succession,1700
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment
