LSCatilina
Never Forget Avaricon
- Location
- Teuta Albigas - Rutenoi - Keltika
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- ēs/xsi
In 1291, two Genoese merchants, Vandino and Ugolino Vivaldi, set themselves to circumnavigate Africa to reach India with two galleys (which, in spite of being a later model, would have looked somewhat like this) but disappeared shortly thereafter beyond southern Morroco, altough they might have reached as far south and west as Canaries Islands.
Now, I think we can agree there were virtually no chances that they would have managed to reach India and pulled a Vasco de Gama two hundred years afore. But imagining they would have somewhat crossed the Cape of Good Hope and reached Somalia (even if it means making a good chunk of the travel on foot on or Arab ships) what would be the consequences in Europe?
Would we see a comparable cultural importance to Marco Polo's travels in European imaginary? An earlier European interest on African (and more broadly southern Atlantic) navigation?
Now, I think we can agree there were virtually no chances that they would have managed to reach India and pulled a Vasco de Gama two hundred years afore. But imagining they would have somewhat crossed the Cape of Good Hope and reached Somalia (even if it means making a good chunk of the travel on foot on or Arab ships) what would be the consequences in Europe?
Would we see a comparable cultural importance to Marco Polo's travels in European imaginary? An earlier European interest on African (and more broadly southern Atlantic) navigation?