Maritime Entdeckung und Expansion
Subtitle: Kontinuitäten, Parallelen und Brüche Von der Antike Bis in Die Neuzeit
Publisher: de Gruyter GmbH, Walter
Published: 2019
Language: ger
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9783110666809
Subjects: World history
Description: "The exploration of new sea routes and distant coasts shaped the history of Eurasia since antiquity. Long before Columbus, captains, merchants, and conquerors combined the Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Indian Ocean into a vibrant network. For the first time, the volume explores epoch-wide the preconditions, processes and consequences of the departure across the oceans for politics, economics and cultural development"--