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We know of many explorers and travelers from the Middle East, Africa, and China before the 1400s. But during the fifteenth century, advances in exploration occurred in a relative backwater of the world, western Europe. At the dawn of the 1400s, most Europeans tilled the soil and had little knowledge of the world beyond their vil
