Geographical discovery refers to the15 ~17th century (also known as the era of great navigation, that is, the opening of new routes), which is the general term for European navigators to open up new routes and "discover" the new continent. This is a great event in the history of geography development.

The great geographical discovery, that is, the opening of new air routes, has promoted the development of human civilization.

(1) connect the world market as a whole, and the new route is the way to connect the world market;

(2) It proves the correctness of the "Earth Circle Theory", which has impacted the theological theory, promoted the development of natural science and shocked the soul;

The isolation of the world's continents has been broken, and the road of human civilization exchange has been broken.

It also brings evil.

Colonial plunder accelerated the primitive accumulation of western Europe, led to poverty and backwardness in Asia, Africa and Latin America, and finally fell behind the West, and the struggle between blood and fire.

Objectively, it also stimulated the development of commodity economy.