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Short answer: The period from the 15th Century until the early 20th Century, when sailing ships evolved to be able to sail all over the world ocean connecting every region of the world across the sea.

Before this period the sail had also dominated travel on the sea, but it had been localized to the individual oceanic regions.

This changed with the Age of Sail, which roughly corresponds with the Age of Exploration.

The Age of Sail set out in Portugal under the guidance of Prince Henry the Navigator, who oversaw the development of the caravel, which was much more capable of traversing the open Atlantic than the heavier and slower Mediterranean cargo ships.

Under the Navigator the Portuguese started to chart down along the African coast following the Canary Current and developing the Volta do Mar navigational technique, which allowed them to return against the flow of the current.