What changes in people’s lives gave the name to the era of New Time?

The beginning of the New Age (1492-1918) is associated with the beginning of the era of great geographical discoveries and with the arrival of European sailors to the shores of America (Columbus’s expedition in 1492).

It was in modern times that the formation of intercontinental trade took place (by the middle of the 16th century, the Europeans reached Japan), the Columbus exchange (goods from Europe came to America, and from it, on the contrary), colonies and trading posts of European countries appeared in America, Africa and Asia, and under the end of the period, the struggle for the colonial redistribution of the world began.

In modern times, the secularization of culture took place, the Reformation appeared in Western Christianity, capitalist relations appeared instead of feudal ones, and bourgeois revolutions began.