The Age of Expanding and Conquering

I would call the 1500s The Age of Expanding and Conquering for the very obvious reasons that that many different civilizations explored, expanded, and conquered. Spain and Portugal both expanded immensely into various regions of the world's oceans. The Spanish claimed a large part of Latin America, too. The Ottoman Empire also did a great deal of expanding in the Middle East. In general, basically every empire of the time used the 1500s as a time to explore their surroundings and try to learn more and more about possible nearby resources or trading posts.