Conqueror of the Seas: The Story of MAGELLAN PDF Stefan Zweig

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An additional consequence was a steady flow of the precious metals to the Orient, inasmuch as European wares did not move eastward to an extent that could compensate for the exchange value of Indian luxuries. Were it only because of the unfavourable balance of trade, the Western World grew more and more eager to escape from this ruinous and degrading control, until at length forcible measures were taken to bring it to an end. The Crusades were not exclusively or mainly (as romanticists are apt to believe) the outcome of an endeavour to liberate the Holy City from the grip of unbelievers. The primary object of the first military coalition of Christian Europe was to break through the Mohammedan barrier across the Red Sea and thus free the trade routes to the East. Since the attempt failed, since Egypt could not be torn from the Moslem grasp and Islam continued to bar the way to the Indies, there necessarily arose an urgent desire to discover a new route to Hindustan, which would be deliv

• Book Name: Conqueror of the Seas: The Story of MAGELLAN pdf
• Author Name Stefan Zweig
• Product Type pdf,epub Digital Book
• Added Year 1938

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