航海家的航海历程

了解航海家的航海历程

Columbus discovered America, the objective development of human society on the importance of promoting human to interact in isolation from each other led to a "fragmented" world history to the "total" transformation of world history. As a result, Columbus has become the world-famous navigator. Since the late 15th century has 500 years of time, many experts and scholars from around the world advance wave upon wave for their research. The fields of Columbus's life, West Airlines background, motivation and purpose of the consequences of the discovery of America, impact, meaning; not only economic, political, religious, social, age, history, geography point of view, but also a comprehensive consideration of analysis. However, studies carried out on the map in particular pains not much discussed, is not enough. The cartography background for the Columbus discovery of America has an indispensable role. In this paper, cartography point of view, first introduced the analysis of ancient Greek and Roman people have views of the Earth's shape and size, and then people's views about the Middle Ages, and then discusses the Columbus concept of his contemporaries in this regard. Columbus, I finally explained to their awareness and attempts to analyze the source of this understanding in order to arrive cartography background on Columbus discovered the Americas is of great significance. And can be further said that ancient Greece and Rome, and medieval cartography, characterized by the Europeans to open up new routes, one of the necessary conditions.