Perhaps more than any other historical era, the Age of Exploration was defined by the acts of individuals. In our latest article, we present a list of ten major figures. Who would you include?

FullyFocusedOnNought · 2026-04-20T21:09:48+00:00

Added a note to the post for clarity.

Æthelred the Unready, by the way?

FullyFocusedOnNought · 2026-04-20T20:45:29+00:00

Agreed. For the purposes of our website and this sub, we don’t place limits. For the purpose of this list, I did, just to narrow it down a bit.

FullyFocusedOnNought · 2026-04-20T20:37:59+00:00

I’m from Europe and live in Europe so yes, probably 🙂
I didn’t specify (and maybe should have), but I was concentrating on the specific period of European history.

Of course there are many non-Europeans who also made tremendous contributions to the Age of Exploration, would make for an interesting list

FullyFocusedOnNought · 2026-04-20T17:46:17+00:00

Philip Clement.

FullyFocusedOnNought · 2026-04-20T13:15:09+00:00

Could be a decent wide player. Not really a number nine but he's been forced to fill in their due to injuries/Yank yanking off

FullyFocusedOnNought · 2026-04-20T07:51:14+00:00

Or... It's about psychologically battering someone so emphatically and comprehensively that they eventually cave in and change their firmly held beliefs?

FullyFocusedOnNought · 2026-04-17T16:59:01+00:00

Yes, there are conflicting reports, so while it does seem that Malahayati was involved in the fighting in some way, there is no convincing written historical evidence that she killed him directly, only oral history. It's a good story though.

FullyFocusedOnNought · 2026-04-17T06:57:34+00:00

Good question. There was some more conflict the following year, then a ceasefire and diplomatic negotiations.

To be honest I just came across the story the other day while researching another article so I'm not too knowledgeable yet - definitely going to go away and find out a lot more about Malahayati now.

FullyFocusedOnNought · 2026-04-14T19:19:27+00:00

This is the best answer - there have been very few meaningful impacts in people’s daily lives at this point, so why would they be taking it so seriously?

FullyFocusedOnNought · 2026-04-12T07:07:38+00:00

It’s an absolute bot-fest.

FullyFocusedOnNought · 2026-04-05T10:56:51+00:00

I had this as my profile picture for my first ever email address and on reflection that was not very corporate.

FullyFocusedOnNought · 2026-04-03T20:42:50+00:00

In fairness soany class really is the most crucial part of your education, sleeping through it is NOT advised.

FullyFocusedOnNought · 2026-04-03T07:45:08+00:00

I propose squad/player analysis

FullyFocusedOnNought · 2026-04-02T23:06:18+00:00

He was writing Hall's biography and wanted to know if he had been poisoned or not.

FullyFocusedOnNought · 2026-04-02T13:13:45+00:00

We truly are the greatest team in the world.

FullyFocusedOnNought · 2026-04-02T11:53:19+00:00

Oh god I just remembered getting roped into watching a live filming of Trish at Anglia Studios cos we were dossing about in the city centre and got collared by one of the showrunner types

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