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The book describes the travels of Mandeville going through Turkey (Asia Minor and Cilicia), Persia, Tartary, Syria, Arabia, India and many countries around India (including Sri Lanka). 1338–1353: Expedition of the Italian Giovanni de' Marignolli , one of four chief envoys sent by Pope Benedict XII to Peking .
1826 – Scottish explorer Alexander Gordon Laing becomes the first European to reach the fabled city of Timbuktu, but is murdered upon leaving the city. [99] 1827 – Jedediah Smith crosses the Sierra Nevada (via Ebbetts Pass) and the Great Basin. [29] 1828 – French explorer René Caillié is the first European to return alive from Timbuktu.
Chronology of European exploration of Asia (330 BCE–1595 CE) Timeline of the Middle Ages (410 CE – 1499) Chronology of colonialism (821–2010) Chronology of the colonization of North America (986–1791) Abolition of slavery timeline (1102 CE–present) Timeline of European exploration (1418 – present) Timeline of European imperialism ...
European exploration of Asia started in ancient Roman times along the Silk Road. The Romans had knowledge of lands as distant as China. The Romans had knowledge of lands as distant as China. Trade with India through the Roman Egyptian Red Sea ports was significant in the first centuries of the Common Era .
Fierce Enigmas: A History of the United States in South Asia (2018) excerpt; Thomson, James et al. Sentimental Imperialists - The American Experience in East Asia (1981) scholarly history over 200 years. Wesseling, Hendrik L. The European Colonial Empires: 1815-1919 (Routledge, 2015). Woodcock, George, The British in the Far East (1969) online ...
Voyage that united Europe, Americas, Africa and Asia. 1500–1501 Pedro Álvares Cabral and Diogo Dias, among others Timor, Moluccas (Australasia - Pacific Ocean) 1512–1513 António de Abreu and Francisco Serrão: Circumnavigation of the globe. Connection from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean (Americas to Asia). 1519–1522
United States Fish Commission Steamer Albatross, in the 1890s. Albatross belonged to the Committee on Fisheries of the United States and it carried out numerous scientific expeditions under the direction of Alexander Emanuel Agassiz (1835–1910). The primary goal was an inventory of the Pacific fishery reserves but many other observations are ...
European exploration initiated the Columbian exchange between the Old World (Europe, Asia, and Africa) and the New World (the Americas and Australia). This exchange involved the transfer of plants, animals, human populations (including slaves ), communicable diseases , and culture across the Eastern and Western Hemispheres .