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Quite a lot happened in Europe between 1002AD,the forces of the Ottaman Turks in 1453, the trade
when the Vikings hurriedly packed their longships andvirtually dried up. The merchants were doomed and a
retreated back to the colder climes of Greenland, andcontinent that had become more or less dependant
1492AD, when the Spanish caravels, with Columbuson this trade suddenly felt the need to find an
so confident at the helm, accidentally stumbledalternative route to regain access to this lucrative
across the forgotten continent.The period, collectivelymarket.At that time Portugal was the leading
known as the Renaissance, saw a general revival ofmaritime nation in Europe, holding vital access to the
interest in intellectual thought. Science was studied,Atlantic Ocean, the unknown frontier and as a few
with fresh experiments conducted and newbelieved the real key to access the eastern markets.
conclusions drawn, laws were introduced to controlAs they started to explore into this ocean they first
the growing populations and to create more stablefound tiny chains of islands - Madeira, the Canary
societies, medicines were used to cure illness andIslands, the Azores and the Cape Verde Islands - but
prolong life, astonomers peered farther into thethey then turned their ships southwards to chart the
unknown universe, while geographers mapped andcontinent of Africa. The Atlantic was still too big, too
plotted the earth.All of these advances were aidedunknown, and they decided to play it safe and stick
by the invention of the movable type and a workingto the coastline. Their plan was to try and get around
printing press, which for the first time made booksthe tip of Africa and then to access Asia across the
and maps easy to produce and allowed knowledge toIndian Ocean. This was a safe route, making sense
be readily available to all.While Spain united to driveon the maps of the time, as to their knowledge the
out the Moors and the other major EuropeanAmerican continent quite simply did not exist.How
countries generally moved closer to becoming nationthings were going to change!This excerpt is taken
states, so the merchants also started to trade withfrom the third chapter of Discovery - The Story of
far-off places and in particular with the other mainAmerica by Anthony Treasure. This book is already
hubbub of civilization, namely the East (principallypublished in the UK (listed on Amazon.co.uk) and is
China, India and Persia).This trade brought all sorts ofdue to be published in the US at a later date. For
attractive items into daily use and it wasn't longnow it is published as an ebook and as a SPECIAL
before Europe started to thrive on this vitalINTRODUCTORY OFFER Discovery Part One is
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a premature halt by the rise of the Muslems in theCHARGE. Three further titles - Discovery Part Two,
Middle East who moved to blockade the profitableColonization Part One and Colonization Part Two are
trade routes.When Constantinople, the establishedalso out as ebooks and can be bought and
base of the Christian Byzantium Empire, finally fell todownloaded from the website.