Мы живем в эпоху Великих географических открытий

Velykye otkrytyya — sobytyya, yzmenyvshye zhyzn vsego chelovechestva na Zemle. Vpervye v ystoryy narody planety, ot Evropy y Azyy do samykh dalnykh gornykh dolyn Peru y ostrovkov v Tykhom okeane, uznaly drug o druge. Za try stoletyya epokhy Velykykh otkrytyy chelovechestvo vpervye oshchutylo svoym domom vsyu planetu Zemlya. Kak zhe skladyvalas zhyzn lyudey toy pory? Chego ony boyalys? K chemu stremylys? V chyom byly pokhozhy y ne pokhozhy na nas? Kak ony voevaly? Na chyom plavaly? Vo chto veryly? Chemu uchylys? Chto ely y chto nosyly? Obo vsyom etom nasha knyga. My otpravymsya v morskoe puteshestvye v Yndyyu vsled za Kolumbom, a potom y v krugosvetku — s Magellanom. Stanem svydetelyamy togo, kak konkystadory pokoryayut ymperyy ynkov y atstekov, kak Yspanyya y Portugalyya delyat mezhdu soboy ves myr y poluchayut neveroyatnye dyvydendy. Poydyom na vostok, v Sybyr, vmeste s pomoramy y kazakamy, otpravymsya v Velykuyu severnuyu ekspedytsyyu vo glave s Vytusom Beryngom. Sovershym udyvytelnoe plavanye s Chzhen Khe y pryvezyom s soboy nastoyashchego tsylynya! Epokha velykykh otkrytyy zakonchylas, no samy otkrytyya ne zakonchatsya nykogda!

Great discoveries are events that have changed the life of all mankind on Earth. For the first time in history, the peoples of the planet, from Europe and Asia to the farthest mountain valleys of Peru and islands in the Pacific Ocean, learned about each other. For the first time in three centuries of the era of Great Discoveries, mankind has felt the entire planet Earth as its home. What was the life of the people of that time? What were they afraid of? What were you aiming for? In what ways were they similar and different from us? How did they fight? What did you swim on? What did you believe in? What did you learn? What did you eat and what did you wear? Our book is about all this. We will go on a sea trip to India after Columbus, and then on a trip around the world with Magellan. Let's witness how the conquistadors conquered the empires of the Incas and Aztecs, how Spain and Portugal divided the whole world among themselves and received incredible dividends. Let's go east to Siberia, together with the Pomors and Cossacks, we will go on the Great Northern Expedition led by Vitus Behring. Let's take an amazing swim with Zheng He and bring a real Qilin with us! The era of great discoveries is over, but the discoveries themselves will never end!