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Unit 2: Networks of Exchange: 8–10% Unit 3: Land-Based Empires: c. 1450 to c. 1750: 12–15% Unit 4: Transoceanic Interconnections: 12–15% Unit 5: Revolutions: c. 1750 to c. 1900: 12–15% Unit 6: Consequences of Industrialization: 12–15% Unit 7: Global Conflict c. 1900 to the present 8–10% Unit 8: Cold War and Decolonization 8–10%
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]
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]
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In February 2021, a controversial study claimed that Venetian glass trade beads had been found at three prehistoric Eskimo sites in Alaska. The authors believe the beads were transported from Venice, Italy, across Eurasia and over the Bering Strait, making this discovery "the first documented instance of the presence of indubitable European materials in prehistoric sites in the western ...
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.
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.
[4] [5] During the Age of Discovery, Spain sponsored and financed the transatlantic voyages of the Italian navigator Christopher Columbus , which from 1492 to 1504 marked the start of colonization in the Americas, and the expedition of the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan to open a route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific, which later ...