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1583–91: The Englishman Ralph Fitch becomes one of the earliest English explorers to visit Mesopotamia, India, and Southeast Asia (Burma, Lan Na, Malacca). 1595: The Dutchman Jan Huyghen van Linschoten published his Reys-gheschrift vande navigatien der Portugaloysers in Orienten ("Travel Accounts of Portuguese Navigation in the Orient") which ...
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
[5] 1862 – Speke discovers the Nile flowing from the northern end of Lake Victoria. [5] 1862 – Ivan Lukin ascends the Yukon to Fort Yukon. [106] 1864 – Samuel Baker discovers "Luta Nzige" (Lake Albert); in the distance he sights the Mountains of the Moon (the Rwenzori). [5] 1865 – Edward Whymper is the first to ascend the Matterhorn. [5]
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 ...
From the early 15th century to the early 17th century the Age of Discovery had, through Portuguese seafarers, and later, Spanish, Dutch, French and English, opened up southern Africa, the Americas (New World), Asia and Oceania to European eyes: Bartholomew Dias had sailed around the Cape of southern Africa in search of a trade route to India; Christopher Columbus, on four journeys across the ...
Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power (2002) Gallagher, John, and Ronald Robinson. "The Imperialism of Free Trade" Economic History Review (1953) 6#1 pp: 1-15. Highly influential argument that British merchants and financiers imposed an economic imperialism without political control.
History of the Jews in Asia (5 C, 3 P) M. Maps of the history of Asia (2 C, 2 P) ... Chronology of European exploration of Asia; H. Herodotus; J. Japanese war crimes; L.
A prime goal for explorers was to locate the source of the River Nile. Expeditions by Burton and Speke (1857–1858) and Speke and Grant (1863) located Lake Tanganyika and Lake Victoria. It was eventually proved to be the latter from which the Nile flowed. Explorers were also active in other parts of the continent.