🌍⚓ Happy Birthday to Vasco da Gama 🎉

Celebrating the legendary explorer who opened the sea route from Europe to India, forever changing the course of history. 🚢✨
A true pioneer of the Age of Discovery!

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Could ancient mapmakers have altered our past and future? Explore how their forgotten knowledge might have reshaped the Age of Exploration and beyond. What secrets are hidden in untold histories? Link: YouTube #AncientMaps #LostKnowledge #AgeOfExploration #MysteriousHistory
What If an Ancient Society Mapped All the Worlds Continents

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The 15th-Century Monk Who Crowdsourced a Map of the World

Fra Mauro was the Google Earth of the 1450s.

Atlas Obscura
Pepper has long been the king of spices and for almost 2,000 years dominated world trade. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1826/middle-eastern-power-shifts--the-trade-of-pepper-f/ #History #AgeofExploration #Pepper #SpiceTrade
Middle Eastern Power Shifts & the Trade of Pepper from East to West

Pepper has long been the king of spices and for almost 2,000 years dominated world trade. Originating in India, it was known in Greece by the 4th century BCE and was an integral part of the Roman diet...

World History Encyclopedia
Nanban Jidai
In the mid-1500s, a Portuguese ship sought safe harbor from Tsukushima Island and thus began a robust, vibrant trade relationship between two distant powers. In addition to guns, silks, and exotic foreign goods, however
https://ahistoryofjapan.com/2023/04/06/nanban-jidai/
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Nanban Jidai - A History of Japan

In the mid-1500s, a Portuguese ship sought safe harbor from Tsukushima Island and thus began a robust, vibrant trade relationship between two distant powers. In addition to guns, silks, and exotic foreign goods, however, these "Southern Barbarians" also brought missionaries preaching a religion heretofore unknown to the Japanese: Roman Catholic Christianity.

A History of Japan - Podcast