Geographical Discoveries

Silk Road that communicated Asia with Europe

Portolan Chart. Map of the Mediterranean by Cresques Abraham of Majorca. 1375

The Caravel and its innovations

Al-Shalî’s Astrolabe from Al-Andalus, 1067

Quadrant

Traditional and Modern Compasses

Portuguese routes

Columbus’s voyages

Treaty of Tordesillas, 1494.

Magellan-Elcano Circumnavigation (1519-1522)

Amerigo VespucciNúñez de Balboa claiming dominion over the South Sea in the name of the emperor Charles I.