Geographical Discoveries Silk Road that communicated Asia with Europe
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Geographical Discoveries
Silk Road that communicated Asia with Europe
Portolan Chart. Map of the Mediterranean by Cresques Abraham of Majorca. 1375
The Caravel and its innovations
Al-Shalî’s Astrolabe from Al-Andalus, 1067
Quadrant
Traditional and Modern Compasses
Portuguese routes
Columbus’s voyages
Treaty of Tordesillas, 1494.
Magellan-Elcano Circumnavigation (1519-1522)
Amerigo VespucciNúñez de Balboa claiming dominion over the South Sea in the name of the emperor Charles I.
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