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How Captain Cook Changed the World

livescience.com — Each Monday, this column turns a page in history to explore the discoveries, events and people that continue to affect the history being made today. He was a latecomer to the Age of Exploration, but James Cook still managed to put his mark on world history in the final frontier of terra incognita – the Pacific Ocean and its isles.

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  • topogio, on 07/07/2008, -1/+2I like this kind of information... it makes history interesting again... :) thanks sirpopper!! you get my digg..
  • DebsW, on 07/07/2008, -0/+3A man ahead of time in more ways than one. Apart from his fascinating journeys and the amazing charting he undertook of unknown territories, he must have been about the only person in those days to realise what would prevent scurvy..
  • ordig, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1hooray for smallpox!
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