Voyages in world history volume 2 pdf download

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Only Cram is Textbook Specific. Accompanies: This item is printed on demand. Es war dies die Zeit, als zum ersten Mal in der Weltgeschichte ein Gegenstand oder eine Botschaft um die ganze Welt reisen konnte.

Waren und Menschen, Ideen und Mikroben - alles beginnt zu zirkulieren. Valerie Hansen entwirft in ihrem grandiosen Buch das Panorama der Welt um das Jahr und erhellt eine Epoche, in der die Menschheitsgeschichte zur Globalgeschichte wird.

Each chapter is framed around the story of a person who traveled within the time period and region of the chapter.

This brief text will meet the needs of instructors who want a lively narrative style without sacrificing the themes and pedagogy that make world history understandable to students; it is also ideal for instructors who want to supplement a text with lots of primary sources.

The authors' approach shifts the focus away from political centers and power, revealing how humanity continues to shape and be shaped by our environments, and how dominant structures and traditions are balanced and challenged by alternate beliefs.

Special emphasis is given to technological development and how it underlies all human activity. Each chapter of the text centers on a story--a traveler's account that highlights the book's main theme, the constant movement of people, goods, and ideas.

The travelers include merchants, poets, rulers, explorers, soldiers, missionaries, and scholars, and their voyages provide a framework for each chapter that will draw you into the stories of world history. For the second edition of this text, the authors added broad global connections to every chapter, which will help you understand events in a larger context. The print text integrates with an online experience through the interactive Voyages Map App fully accessible via any computer or mobile device , which will transport you virtually to the locations in the book to learn about the historic sites, and also includes a wealth of study tools.

And there are also black hawks, black as ravens, eagles, partridges and many other birds. There cannot be confusion with the commonly accepted date for the Cabots' voyage, in Two options can explain this. Intentional changes and inaccuracies were very common among geographers at the time, depending on the political interests of their sponsors.

As Cabot was funded at the time of the map by Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain, he may have been interested in showing that the first travel to North America was in and thus funded by Castilians or by Portuguese, and not by English or French. No documentation has survived for this. They brought back a certain amount of salted fish, which suggests the voyage was at least partly commercial and that other expeditions may also have included fishing.

In —09 Cabot led one of the first expeditions to find a North-West passage through North America. He is generally credited with gaining 'the high latitudes,' where he told of encountering fields of icebergs and reported an open passage of water, but was forced to turn back. Some later descriptions suggest that he may have reached as far as the entrance of Hudson Bay. According to Peter Martyr's account Sebastian then sailed south along the east coast of North America, passing the rich fisheries off the coast of Newfoundland, going on until he was 'almost in the latitude of Gibraltar' and 'almost the longitude of Cuba'.

This would imply that he reached as far as Chesapeake Bay, near what is now Washington, D. Cabot believed that Spain was more interested in major exploration, but his hopes of getting Ferdinand's support were lost with the king's death. In the turmoil afterward, no plans would be made for new expeditions, and Cabot returned to England.

Cabot's effort's in to bring together and lead an English discovery voyage to North America are well attested. But the Drapers Company expressed their distrust of Sebastian, and offered only limited funds. The response of other livery companies is unknown.

The project was abandoned, and Cabot returned to Spain. Cabot married Joanna later recorded as Juana in Spanish documents. They had children before , the year he entered Spanish service. That year he had returned to London to bring his wife and family to Seville. By 14 September , his wife was dead. Among his children was a daughter Elizabeth.

An unnamed daughter was recorded as dying in But since the Spanish wills of both Catalina and Sebastian name nieces of Catalina as their heirs, it is unlikely that by the time of Catalina's death the pair had children surviving from their marriage.

By , he was once again working for Spain as a member of the Council of the Indies and holding the rank of Pilot-Major, where he supervised naval and navigator training, etc. Cabot secretly offered his services to Venice in communications with the Council of Ten. He promised to undertake to find the Northwest Passage to China for Venice if they would receive him. Cabot was commissioned at the rank of captain general in Spain.

On March 4, , he was given command of a fleet that was to determine from astronomical observation the precise demarcation of the Treaty of Tordesillas, which defined the area of Spanish and Portuguese monopolies. He was also to convey settlers to the Molucca Islands in the Pacific, to strengthen Spanish claims in the spice islands. This voyage was officially noted as an expedition for the discovery of Tarshish, Ophir, Eastern Cathay, and Cipango Japan.

By this time the survivors of Magellan's expedition had completed their circumnavigation of the world, finding it larger than previously known. The voyage had increased pressure on Spain and Portugal to define their territories, as old boundaries seemed superseded by new data. Cabot was directed to cross the Pacific twice and he might have accomplished a second circumnavigation of the world. When Cabot landed with his expedition in Brazil, however, he heard of the rumours of the great wealth of the Incan king and the nearly-successful invasion of Aleixo Garcia.

Cabot had already earned the disapproval of his crew by stranding the fleet in the doldrums and running the flagship aground off Santa Catarina Island. He dealt with the mutiny by marooning these men and other officers on Santa Catarina Island, where they are believed to have died.

This was the first Spanish settlement in modern-day Uruguay. This was the first Spanish settlement in present-day Argentina; the town of Cabot was later constructed nearby and named in his honour. As a result of this encounter, Cabot sent one ship back to Spain. The Trinidad sailed on 8 July with his reports, accusations against the mutineers, and requests for further aid. He recovered the cannon and returned to San Salvador.

At a council on August 6, , he decided to return to Spain. Purchasing 50 slaves there, he traveled along the coast of Brazil before heading across the Atlantic, reaching Seville on 22 July , with one ship and 24 men.