If the world was round, why was it not possible to sail eastward to India? What nations sought to answer these questions? What marriage consolidated a country which would rule the seas?
Listen to, The Early Colonizing Nations
“The world’s history is a divine poem of which the history of every nation is a canto and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled discords of warring and cannon and dying men, yet to the the Christian philosopher and historian – the humble listener – there has been a divine melody running through the song which speaks of hope and peaceful days to come.”
