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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
travel to a part of the earth that is relatively unknown to the traveler's culture, historically often motivated by a desire for colonization, conquest, or trade. See also space exploration , geography , and articles on localities, e.g., Africa , Arctic, the , Australia . Early Egyptian expeditions penetrated into Nubia and Mesopotamia; the Phoenicians and the Greeks explored the Mediterranean and the Black Sea regions earlier than 600 B.C. ; and a Phoenician expedition (c.600 B.C. ) is said to have sailed around Africa. After 500 B.C. the Carthaginians explored beyond the Strait of Gibraltar to trade along the coasts of Spain and Africa. A Greek navigator, Pytheas , sailed beyond Britain c.310 B.C. The conquests of Alexander the Great brought the West in closer relationship with the East, and the Roman legions extended the limits of geographical knowledge, especially in N Europe. Trade with the East was stimulated by the discovery (c. A.D. 15) of a sea captain, Hippalus, that by using…
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From Encyclopedia of American Studies
Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way....
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From The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment
Exploration of North America during the Age of Enlightenment was carried out by a variety of people with differing motives, from fisheries exploration to the desire for scientific knowledge for its own sake. Many of the explorers had religious, commercial, maritime, or military interests tied to…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
travel to a part of the earth that is relatively unknown to the traveler's culture, historically often motivated by a desire for colonization, conquest, or trade. See also space exploration , geography , and articles on localities, e.g., Africa , Arctic, the , Australia . Early Egyptian expeditions…
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From International Encyclopedia of Human Geography
© 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This article is reproduced from the previous edition, volume 3, pp 676-682, © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. Glossary Age of Discovery A period from the 15th to the 17th centuries when European maritime nations explored the world in search of trade goods such as gold…
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From Historical Dictionary of Australia
Sea and land exploration were important activities in Australian history. Sea exploration proceeded relatively quickly after the foundation of Sydney in 1788. In 1798, George Bass and Matthew Flinders sailed round Tasmania and proved it was an island. In 1801–3, Flinders carried out a remarkable…
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From The Oxford Companion to British History
The notion of Europeans discovering other peoples and telling them who they are and where they live is now suspect, especially as an explorer's discourse is said to be determined by his mind-set rather than any objective reality. Yet descriptions of the surface of the globe and its peoples have been…
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From Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations
English lawyer, statesman, and essayist It would indeed be dishonourable to mankind, if the regions of the material globe, the earth, the sea, and stars should be so prodigiously developed and illustrated in our age, and yet the boundaries of the intellectual globe should be confined to the narrow…
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From Encyclopedia of Society and Culture in the Medieval World
During the millennium that defines the medieval period, peoples throughout the world continued the explorations they had begun in ancient times. Portions of the world were relatively densely populated. Cities in the Middle East were large and highly developed, as were those in China and other parts…
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More is known about exploration that originated in Europe than anywhere else. Lack of documentation deprives us of detailed knowledge of non-European explorers like the Polynesians of the Pacific. An exception is the accounts we have of the seven expeditions into the Indian Ocean by fleets of junks…
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From 100 Ideas that Changed Photography
When early advocates of photography argued the worth of the new medium, they usually mentioned its value to scientific expeditions and geographic documentation. The camera played a significant role in recording and exploring the world—and the universe—around us. At the same time, it became a symbol…
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