Google Translate says that Rich Garden is πλούσιο κήπο, or ploúsio kí̱p.
whaaaaaaat
Good catch. I meant far northeastern corner.
Google Translate says that Rich Garden is πλούσιο κήπο, or ploúsio kí̱p.
whaaaaaaat
I believe you are you referring to St. Brendan of Clonfert.
No what I'm saying is you should say 'The Ptolemaic Empire' instead of 'The empire' because right now it seems like you are saying the northwestern corner of Akro is Lebanon.Good catch. I meant far northeastern corner.
Thanks for the correction. I could have sworn I've read that the Carthaginians restricted Greek access to the Atlantic, thought. Now I just can't remember where the heck I read about that...There is a possibility of the Carthiginians doing it, but the Greeks are just as likely. Even though they controlled the Pillars of Hercules, the would've allowed Greek ships through: IIRC, the Carthaginians are Greeks got on rather well (except, perhaps, for those Sicilian Greeks).
I believe they have done tests and the like and have determined that Greek oceangoing craft of antiquity could actually make a Trans-Atlantic voyage. And again, we had Basque fisherman off of Newfoundland in the 1500s using (if I'm not mistaken) rather basic fishing boats.
And even if the Greeks do set up a colony in "The Hesperides" or "Atlantis" or "Amazonia" or whatever they call it, it'll likely soon become its own independent city state. Carthage could make a fortune being the middle man between the Mediterranean states and the ones of the New World. I suppose the West African and Iberian coastlines will become more developed as well, with Gadir becoming increasingly important.
Prince Madoc of Gwynedd is said to have traveled to the America’s twice in the 600’s.
Really? Jeus that'd be immpressive.
I'm sorry, but I just don't see how Egypt can be "more wealthy" than the Seleucid Empire, when the latter controls access to the Silk Road in the east.
235 BC: Extra resources on hand in the absence of a major war a few years earlier, Ptolemy III commissions an expedition to chart the African coast further west, past the Strait of Gibralter.
Egypt's taxpayers were nicely concentrated along a natural highway, making tax collection easy. Even in the Medieval and Early Modern period, the Mamluk Sultans got considerably more revenue from their subjects than the equally despotic Ottomans - and far more than most European Kingdoms, other than city-states.
Then there was that one Norwegian who sailed across the Atlantic in some balsa and reed construct (or am I thinking of the Pacific?).
Cool thread, I hope you continue.
FYI, Prince Madoc 'supposedly' voyaged to America in 1170, so well after the Vikings.
St. Brendan's legendary journey is said to have happened 512-530 AD; and he did it in a hide boat!!