The Age of Discovery was a period of time for the Old World to claim their own parts of newly found territory in the west in search for personal gain. Countries like Spain, Portugal, France, and England competed for land that was already inhabited, doing anything they could to get what they desired. Resulting from the European dominance in trade, exploration, and colonization, the most significant consequence of the Age of Discovery was the lasting harsh treatment of Native American and African people
The Anthem by Ayn Rand is a dystopian novella which portrays a very intransigent but possible future of mankind similar to most of the other dystopian fictions like Suzanne Collin’s Hunger Games. It takes place in a harsh and inflexible society on an unspecified date in the future. It is an exact replica of a medieval society where technological advances are carefully planned and individual thought is severely castigated and harshly punished. In that society, the current period is known as the Unmentionable
theorized the concept of the singularity of the universe, in other words a single primordial atom. His work received significant boosts from Edwin Hubble’s observations of how the galaxies where moving away from a central point of origin and from the discovery of cosmic microwave radiation by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson. The big bang leave several unanswered questions, like what was the original cause of the big bang itself, though several suggestions have been proposed to address the fundamental question