Visual Source: Map of Eurasian Trade

European Exploration, Perception of the Other, and the Columbian Exchange

What factors contributed to the European interest in exploration?

This map shows trade routes, both overland and overseas, and the common trade items in each region during the fifteenth century.

Map of Trade Routes in the 15th Century
. What items were traded between Asia and Europe?

. What does the map suggest about how and where trade between Europe and Asia occurred before the Portuguese exploration?

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