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Unit 2: Networks of Exchange Period 2 – c. 1450 to c. 1750; Unit 3: Land-Based Empires Unit 4: Transoceanic Interconnections Period 3 – c. 1750 to c. 1900; Unit 5: Revolutions Unit 6: Consequences of Industrialization. Period 4 – c. 1900 to the present; Unit 7: Global Conflict Unit 8: Cold War and Decolonization Unit 9: Globalization
The Persian Gulf Bridge in Qeshm–Bandar Abbas will be a 2.4 km- (1.5 mi-) long road-rail bridge, connecting Qeshm Island to mainland Iran, from the historic port of Laft to Pahal port in Bandar Abbas (Hormozgan Province). It was proposed to build an undersea tunnel instead of a bridge, but was rejected due to high costs. [64]
The Interoceanic Highway or Trans-oceanic highway is an international, transcontinental highway in Peru and Brazil that connects the two countries. [1] It was completed in 2011, and runs east to west, spanning 2,600 kilometres (1,600 mi). It entailed the renovation and construction of roughly 2,600 kilometers of roads and 22 bridges.
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On 4 May 1493, two months after Columbus's arrival, the Catholic Monarchs received a bull (Inter caetera) from Pope Alexander VI stating all lands west and south of a pole-to-pole line 100 leagues west and south of the Azores or the Cape Verde Islands should belong to Castile and, later, all mainlands and islands then belonging to India. It did ...
As the main means of transoceanic travel for more than a century, ocean liners were essential to the transport needs of national governments, commercial enterprises and the general public. " First globalization " is a phrase used by economists to describe the world's first major period of globalization of trade and finance , which took place ...
Without the advancements made in nautical sciences, particularly by Iberian scientists and explorers, trans-oceanic navigation would have not been possible. The earliest periods of navigation within Portugal and Spain employed the use of crude, antiquated, and unreliable instruments.
Reenactment of a Viking landing in L'Anse aux Meadows. Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact theories are speculative theories which propose that visits to the Americas, interactions with the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, or both, were made by people from elsewhere prior to Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the Caribbean in 1492. [1]