Exploration and Discovery: Uncovering the World in the 15th Century

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Exploration and Discovery in the 15th Century

Known and Unknown Territories

In the 15th century (1400s), Europeans were familiar with Europe and the territories surrounding the Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, China, Japan, and India. However, the Americas, Africa, and Oceania remained largely unknown.

The Desire for Luxury Goods

Wealthy Europeans enjoyed luxury goods from Asia, such as spices (pepper, cloves, cinnamon), silks, and jewels. However, Muslim rulers along the trade routes imposed heavy taxes,

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Excerpt. In 1819 a danish physicist. H. C. Ostered was carrying out an ordinary class demostration. He passed an electric current trough a copper wire wich was joined to a voltaic cell. Amongst the apparatuses on his demostration bench there happened to be a magnetic needle and Oersted noticed that when his hand holding the wire moved near the needle the latter was deflected. With a quick jump of imagination he desconnected the ends of the wwire and connected them to the oposite ends of the Read More