Age of Exploration Courses and Certifications

PredictionX: Lost Without Longitude

65 ratings at edX

Explore the history of navigation, from stars to satellites.

• edX
• 1 week, 2-5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

World History for Kids

Video lessons introduce elementary students to explorers, historical figures, wars, empires, and civilizations in world history.

• Study.com
• 8 hours 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

History's Greatest Voyages of Exploration

105 ratings at The Great Courses Plus

Follow in the footsteps of history's most ambitious and influential explorers from antiquity through the space age in this captivating course taught by a top-rated professor.

• The Great Courses Plus
• 12 hours 3 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Astronomical Navigation

Learn how stars, celestial bodies, time, and tides guide navigation, from the voyages of early explorers to practical astronomical positioning.

• XuetangX
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Rise of Modern West - I

Explore how Renaissance, Reformation, voyages, colonialism, and commercial change shaped the rise of modern Western Europe.

• Swayam
• 15 weeks
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Zhejiang Ocean University

海上丝绸之路

以海上航路为线索，讲述先秦至近代中国与东亚、印度洋及欧洲之间的贸易往来、宗教传播与文明交流。

• XuetangX
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Changing Minds: Geographic Discoveries and New Worlds through the Eyes of a Renaissance Jewish Scholar

Read a Renaissance Jewish scholar's world: explore Abraham Farissol's Hebrew geographical treatise Iggeret Orhot 'Olam, its sources, Ferraran setting, and first Hebrew mention of the Americas.

• edX
• 5 weeks, 1-2 hours a week
• No Longer Offered
• Free Online Course (Audit)

A History of European Empires: 1400–1522

Gain insights into the major events and people that shaped Europe’s first modern colonial empires.

• edX
• 3 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• No Longer Offered
• Free Online Course

Some Aspects of the Transformation of Society & Economy of Modern Europe, 15th-18th Century

Trace Europe’s transition to modernity through changing society, economy, religion, and thought from the 15th to 18th centuries.

• Swayam
• 6 weeks
• Not Currently Offered
• Free Online Course