Late Middle Ages · Europe · Exploration
1375
Catalan Atlas compiled in Majorca
1375
The Jewish cartographer Abraham Cresques completed for the Aragonese court a vast world map on parchment, decorated with caravan routes, the Mali king holding a golden nugget, the silk road, and Marco Polo's east. It stretched from the Atlantic to the China Sea across twelve panels. It was Europe's most detailed image of the world before the Atlantic discoveries.
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Also in 1375 (3 other events on record)
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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