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This vast realm of geographical ignorance reduced European activity in the Outer World to an archipelago of settlements, mines and trading depots connected by a skein of pathways kept open only by constant effort.
John Darwin • After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
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The Venetian Atlas is a recently rediscovered work of the 14th-century Genoese cartographer Petrus Vesconte, thought to have been completed towards the end of his Venetian period (c. 1330). Though the geographer has long been renowned for the accuracy of his nautical maps of the Mediterranean and Black seas, this long-lost portolan chart is... See more
M. E. Rothwell on Substack
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection | The Collection
davidrumsey.comThe Ocean Liner
On the larger stage of Eurasian or global economic competition, the maritime sector of the European economy, for all its success in developing the commodity trades across the Atlantic, and in finding customers among the expatriate Europeans in the Americas, was simply too small, too restricted in economic and demographic capacity, to aspire to
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