To the Ends of the Earth: How Ancient Conquerors, Explorers, Scientists, and Traders Connected the World

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To the Ends of the Earth
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Introduction, or, An American in Carthage
1. A World on the Move: Ancient Rulers, Traders, and Heroes
	Captains and Warriors of the Bronze Age
	Phoenicians and Euboeans Take to the Seas
	Wondrous Isles, Beasts, and Beautiful Women
	Odysseus
2. Apollo’s Disciples: Exploration in the Seventh and Sixth Centuries bce
	Secrets of the North
	Go West! Long-​Distance Journeys of Greeks from Asia Minor
	A New World Order
3. Beyond the Mediterranean: Carthage and Persia Explore Africa and India
	The Call of the South
	The Road to Timbuktu
	The Persian Advance into Asia
	Human Existence in the World
4. New Horizons on Land and at Sea
	Grand Designs
	Braving the Northwestern Ocean
	The Near and Far East
	Alexander’s Search for the Ends of the Earth
5. Investigating the East and South: Advances in the Hellenistic Era
	Seleucids and Mauryans
	Greeks on the Ganges
	Expeditions of the Ptolemies and the Geography of Eratosthenes
6. The Romans Explore the North
	Westward Ho!
	Rome’s Advance into the Central European Interior
	To the Elbe and the Baltic
7. The Globalization of Eurasia in the First and Second Centuries CE
	Pepper and Incense
	The Island of Jewels
	‘Corals and Silk’
	From Cattigara to Thule . . . Without America?
8. How the Old World Came to the New: Ancient Knowledge and Early-​Modern Expansion
	The Loss of Mediterranean Unity
	The Antipodes and the Earthly Paradise
	Geographic-​Cosmological Foundations of Long-​Distance Exploration
	Latin Christendom as Bridge
	Preparations for Departure: Mobility, Knowledge Transfer, and the Aristotle Renaissance
	The ‘Opening of Earthly Paradise’ and the Search for Prester John—​From Rubruck to Marco Polo
	Paradise Shifts South, Portuguese Advances in Africa
	Columbus and the Journey West over the Atlantic
	The Old World in the New
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Timeline
Notes
Bibliography
Index