A first book in American history with European beginnings . Trade Routes to the Far East in the Time of Columbus. and his angels. The lands known to Europeans formedthe center of the square. On the west the land ended inwater. On the east lay Cathay; but about Cathay thepeople of Europe knew nothing. They thought of it as a 55 A FIRST BOOK IN AMERICAN HISTORY great bog or swamp, full of dreadful beasts, hobgoblins,bugaboos, and monsters, which roamed about howling ina way to make ones hair fairly stand on end. Gradually, however, the merchants of Italy pushedfarther and farther east to increas
A first book in American history with European beginnings . Trade Routes to the Far East in the Time of Columbus. and his angels. The lands known to Europeans formedthe center of the square. On the west the land ended inwater. On the east lay Cathay; but about Cathay thepeople of Europe knew nothing. They thought of it as a 55 A FIRST BOOK IN AMERICAN HISTORY great bog or swamp, full of dreadful beasts, hobgoblins,bugaboos, and monsters, which roamed about howling ina way to make ones hair fairly stand on end. Gradually, however, the merchants of Italy pushedfarther and farther east to increase their commerce. And. Marco Polo. by the end of a hundred years a Venetian named MarcoPolo had actually found his way to the very heart ofCathay. What the Europeans called Cathay, we call China;and in the thirteenth century China was no more a swampthan it is to-day. Marco Polo found a mighty people liv-ing in China, possessed of a mighty empire, and ruled by a 56 COLUMBUS mighty ruler. Their lands were rich in mines of gold andcoal; and ebony, bamboo, corn, silk, and spices wereplentiful. When Marco Polo returned to Italy, he wrote a booktelling about his travels; about the riches of China andJapan; and, most important of all, about a great sea thatlay even farther east than China. COLUMBUSS PLAN By the beginning of the fourteenth century the Italiancities had built up a flourishing trade with India. Amongthe most important of the trade centers were the repub-lics of Genoa and Venice. Genoa sent her cargoes to India by way of Constan-tinople and the Black and Caspian seas. But suddenly,about the middle of
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