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That's reasonable. It looks like other people agree with you about the age of discovery, although I always thought of it extending longer. Australia and NZ were discovered by Europeans in the mid-1600s, and Siberia and Alaska (which are somewhat geopolitically significant) had ongoing exploration into the 1700s.
I'd also move colonialism at least back to Columbus.
Edit: Although, subjugating people to take their stuff was an ancient concept, and none of the atrocities along the way were really original either. When writing or speaking I tend to avoid the terms altogether, and go with "the Age of Sail" for everything, since the European invention of seafaring was the distinguishing variable that allowed both the colonisation and the exploration to happen.