Geography in the Age of Reconnaissance
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Historical Summary
Geography in the Age of Reconnaissance
i. What qualified as geographical knowledge during the period in question? What were its most important themes, unanswered questions, and methods?
The dominant theme during this period was geographical exploration. This is the most important issue in the age of reconnaissance. Traveling, discovering, practical knowledge served to make people aware of the world they were living in. The direction of the development of geographic knowledge changed significantly.
The age of reconnaissance is well distinguished from other periods because most of the conditions for explorations were as well their consequences. Development in different fields, as navigation, ship building, astronomy went together, development in one branch was causing development in another and so on. Thus, development in shipbuilding made overseas travel possible...