The Shocks of European Colonization From 1492 to 1608, a new era, called "The age of discovery," had evolved into a full blown conquest for the unknown. Explorers explored the unknown in the uncharted sea with their crew and boats in search for the unknown. This innocent quest for the unknown grew fatal when greed interceded in their discoveries. During this age of discovery, Europeans invaded the "New World," cruelly enforced it's culture upon the Indian culture and used Africans rudely and injustly in slave trading. When Christopher Columbus discovered the new world, little did he know that he would begin an e