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  "headline": "Age of Exploration",
  "description": "The Age of Exploration (15th-17th centuries) was driven by European powers seeking new trade routes to Asia, bypassing Ottoman-controlled land routes. Technological enablers: caravel ships, improved navigation (astrolabe, compass), cartography. Consequences: Columbian Exchange (global transfer of crops, animals, diseases), colonization, globalization.",
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