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The five blocks of the eastern hemisphere of our world |
It shows the part of the world that educated people knew about in A.D. 1250 (about 700 years ago). Shows the entire world except the two Americas. 5 blocks: 1. The Mongol Empire - current China, a part of Siberia, South Russia, Iran and Asia Minor 2. India 3. The Muslim Empire of the Middle East - current Arabia, Egypt, Turkey and North Africa 4. Western Europe and European Russia 5. The remaining part of Africa |
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Why did the people 700 years ago know little or nothing about other blocks? |
People 700 years ago knew little or nothing about other blocks because: There were no streamships or railways until 150 years ago. There were no buses or other efficient methods of transportation and most roads were very bad. There was language barrier, so brave travellers or merchants who went there could not communicate. Many obstacles such as rivers, mountains, deserts and jungles came in the way. |
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Fa Hien |
Chinese traveller who visited India and Ceylon afterwards |
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Marco Polo |
A famous merchant of Venice who became an important official in China under Kublai Khan |
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Mungo Park |
Discovered the source of the River Niger |
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Amundsen |
First reached the South Pole |
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Tenzing with Hillary |
First climbed Mount Everest |
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Leif Ericsson |
The bold Viking from Iceland who first reached the shores of North America from Europe |
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Brave men and women who wanted more knowledge |
(Fa Hien Marco Polo Ibn Battuta) - wanted to travel to unknown parts of the word to see new lands and meet new people Christopher Columbus - wanted to find out new ways of reaching places already heard about/known Mungo Park Amundsen Tenzing Hillary Leif Ericsson |
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The quickest way to travel |
horse-back |
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Most comfortable way to travel |
Palanquin (palki) - carried on the shoulders of 4 strong bearers. Used in India. Chances of robbery or murder on the way were considerable. |
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The rivers where the earliest civilizations travelled along |
Almost all journeys were overland and if possible along river valleys or across coastal plains. The Egyptians: •The River Nile The Mesopotamians (of Iraq): •The River Euphrates •The Tigris The Ancient Indians: •The Indus •The Ganges •The Krishna •The Godavari The Chinese: •The Yangtze Kiang •The Hwang Ho |
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Christopher Columbus |
He got the idea of sailing westwards to China after reading about China in a book describing Marco Polo's travels. In 1492 Columbus reached the West Indian Islands and from that time onwards many explorers set out to discover new lands or new ways to reach old ones. |
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Eratosthenes |
Famous Greek geographer who was probably the first man to calculate the diameter of the earth and made a map of the world as known in his time (the second century BC) |
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Ptolemy's map |
Ptolemy, who also lived in Alexandria in Greece about 400 years after Eratosthenes, made the most famous ancient map (the Ptolemy's map) |
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Chief map-makers |
• Arabs were the chief map-makers in the Middle Ages (9th to 13th centuries AD). • Followed by the Dutch and the French. • In modern times by the Germans and the British |
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Where did Ashoka send his Buddhist missionaries? How did they go? |
It is recorded in his edict that he sent out his Buddhist missionaries to: •Most of the neighbouring countries •China •Egypt •Greece They went overland: •Across the Himalayas, through Tibet to China. •Through Persia and Asia Minor to Egypt and Greece. |
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Herodotus |
An adventurous Greek traveller who wrote a book describing the places and the strange sights he saw in north Africa on the opposite side of the Mediterranean sea from Greece. Most people laughed and said that he was telling travellers' tales. Only recently that we know that he was true although he exaggerated them. |
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The Silk Road |
The 'Silk Road' was the route followed between the traders of China and Europe in the first century BC. It passed through the regions currently Tibet and Turkestan into Persia and the Mediterranean area. |
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