SFII-UF 102 Lecture Notes - France 2, Bruges
25 Jul 2014
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Thomas more utopia 1520: the age of discovery. 1453 (constantinople fall), turks invaded constantinople, but couldn"t get throughout the walls of constantinople: marco polo (italy) brought back gunpowder, invented the canon, joined with turks and knocked the walls down. Vasco da gama around africa to india, south east asia and china: when he got around africa, he knew that he could get to the persian. Hanno (phoenician) sailed around africa to egypt. coast, and went to india and made it to china. Columbus across the atlantic a new world: genuies (?) would not fund him to sail went to spain and queen isabella and asked her to fund him, until the. Portugal tried to cheat him :o when columbus came back from the caribbean, and brought the. American indians wanted to out-do columbus, he made up stories. Travels and utopias of ancient greece & rome. The netherlands antwerp, bruge, brussels, amsterdam, leiden, etc.
