15th And 16th Century American Exploration

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European travelers in the 15th and 16th century begin to embark on series of explorations of the New World. This period is well known as the “Age of exploration”, where many figures such as Ferdinand Magellan, explore the Atlantic road and the Pacific Ocean. This age represents a new period of interaction and connection with new undiscovered territories or as it is called (New World). Not only the American literature if full of such explorations, but also the Arabic one as well. By the year 1905, Antun Rabbat, a well-known Jesuit scholar of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, discovers a manuscript of the first Eastern travel to Americas, in the library of the Suryan bishopric in Aleppo. He publishes the first manuscript in Al

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