The Fatherland: (1450-1700) : showing the part it bore in the discovery, exploration and development of the western continent with special reference to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; ptIof a narrative and critical history, prepared at the reque . Hanseatic Arms.(CoMToiR AT Bruges.) Robertsons India, p. 120. The gold and silver mines in the various provinces ot Germany were the most valuable and productive ofany known at that time in Europe. See Zimmermanns Political Surveyof Europe, p. 102. The prosperity ol these mines, mainly in the vicinityof Freiberg, continued until the influx of Amer
The Fatherland: (1450-1700) : showing the part it bore in the discovery, exploration and development of the western continent with special reference to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; ptIof a narrative and critical history, prepared at the reque . Hanseatic Arms.(CoMToiR AT Bruges.) Robertsons India, p. 120. The gold and silver mines in the various provinces ot Germany were the most valuable and productive ofany known at that time in Europe. See Zimmermanns Political Surveyof Europe, p. 102. The prosperity ol these mines, mainly in the vicinityof Freiberg, continued until the influx of American silver from Mexicocaused the price of silver to fall so low that the German mines ceased tabe productive. This misfortune was hastened by the numerous wars,notably that known as the Thirty Years War. See Festschrift zum 100-jilhrigen Jubilaeum der Koniglichen Berg Academie zu Freiberg, Mohammed II. (The Great).Born, 1430. Died, 1481. The Capture of Constantinople. 49 the Bosphorus, which was destined to affect thewhole political situation of Europe, and at the sametime bring about the greatest changes in commercialcircles,—an event which stimulated a series of voy-ages and eventually led to the discovery of the West-ern world. This event was the capture of Constantinople,after a heroic defence under the German Germani-cus^^ by the Sultan Mohammed 11^^ in 1453, wherebythe Turk not only obtained a foothold in Europe, butwas at the same time in a position to control themost lucrative trade of the Mediterranean/ The immediate effect of this Moslem occupation,so far as we are concerned, was two-fold: firstly, theexpulsion, by the Turks, of the Grecian scholarswho fled to Italy and Germany, and there obtained afoot-hold in the various universities of the two coun-tries, bringing about, as we all know, the Renais- 1^ Johannes Germanicus (Johann der Deutsche,) a German so
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