The faint glimmer on the horizon had, beyond all doubt, become the sun at seven or eight in the morning. With the great discoveries of the Age of Discovery, the new world had now truly arrived, and Volume Five ended here!
In this author's one-sided view, the so-called new world was both an expansion of understanding and the possibility of maritime connection. When Europe discovered the Americas, and the Americas discovered Asia, exchange was destined to happen, and geography no longer meant isolation. The brand-new face brought by this possibility of an infinite future was a new world—a changing world.
To a certain degree, the people of this era were special, and also fortunate. After continuing a traditional worldview for more than a thousand years, they suddenly discovered that the world did not end there, that the world was so vast! This sudden unfolding of the world might only be comparable to a time, centuries later, when people could open up colonies among the stars!
In this magnificent era, although the shock brought by the great geographical discoveries had only just begun, it was rapidly reshaping the understanding of many people, leaving enough foundation and space for the reforms and conflicts that followed... Therefore, this had to be seen as the starting point of everything. The surging and majestic Age of Discovery was the true starting point that linked all humanity across the five continents together! And arduous voyaging and exploration, no matter what purpose they carried, were a stirring hymn to courage!
So the center of this volume was actually not the Mexica Plateau, but the very front line of exchange in the new world: Northeast Asia and the Caribbean Sea.
Trade and exchange in Northeast Asia began with the Kingdom's exploration fleet making contact with the Ainu tribes,