European Discovery and Exploration
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Works read by Europeans dealing with distant lands
Authors from Late Antiquity, the travel book of Sir John Mandeville, the Travels of Marco Polo, letters and papers written by papal ambassadors and missionaries.
Reasons caravan routes and trade networks were closed to Europeans in the fourteenth century
Conversion of the Mongols to Islam and the rise of the Ottomans.
Important developments in geography that fostered European discovery and exploration
The Catalan World Atlas.
Native version of the coming of the Spanish
The Spanish are seen greeting the Aztecs with a fully armed Spanish military in the background.
Technical innovations that made sailing easier
The fly compass and the astrolabe.
