We all know that Prince Enrique of Portugal was unmarried for life and devoted his entire life to the maritime career of mankind. He gathered scientific and technological talents from all over Europe, and his greatest contribution was to improve the single-mast sailboat in Europe and built a Calavere sailboat suitable for the ocean.
Enrique founded the first nautical school in human history to cultivate talents and sailors who can sail from ocean. Enrique established an observatory to collect information on geography, meteorology, trade winds, currents, shipbuilding, navigation and other information.
Ocean voyage, without a map, it means that one eye and one code is black. Prince Enrique has begun to collect a large number of maps and draw new maps with more accurate accuracy.
Prince Enrique also invited mathematicians, geographers, mappers and astronomers from all over Europe to make plans and itineraries for themselves for ocean navigation, and to improve and produce new navigation instruments...
The most important tool for ocean exploration is ships that resist wind and waves, are strong and reliable, and have good manipulation.
The prince spent half his life finally building the Calavere sailboat.
The spinnakers commonly seen in the Mediterranean Sea for Calavere sailing are about 20 to 30 meters long and weigh about 50 tons. They have the advantages of fast speed, good stability and easy steering.
This created conditions for the great geographical discovery that began in 1500.
These technologies brought dividends to Europeans for five hundred years, but they brought disaster to African blacks. In the following hundreds of years, Europeans sailed around the world with the goal of plundering original capital.
They are also engaged in human trafficking, but their slaves are black people.
But what many people don’t know is that before the Age of Discovery in Europe, the hometown of Europeans and the Europeans had already experienced large-scale human trafficking. However, there were two groups of people doing this.
The human trafficker gang in the north are the Crimean Khanate, which calls themselves Mongolians. The targets of slave trade are naturally white men and women in Europe. The early stage was mainly Germans, and the later stage was mainly Slavs.
The gangs in the south are pirates entrenched on Sicily, Tunisia, and other Mediterranean islands. In the Arab region on the southern coast of the Mediterranean, Arabs and pirates have frequently raided southern European countries for hundreds of years.
They landed, captured the towns, and captured all the people in the town. They plundered the towns. The captured people were sold as white slaves to the Arabs and the Ottoman Empire.
At that time, due to the Black Death, the Ottoman population dropped sharply, and the labor force was severely insufficient, and there was a large demand for labor.
In those hundreds of years, Eastern Europe was tragically harmed by the Crimean Khanate.
The Crimean Khanate was once a province of the Golden Horde, and it set up a Crimean Governor. The reason why it was able to establish a country independently was due to the division caused by the descendants of Genghis Khan's struggle for power and profit. They were lucky enough to establish a country in a series of civil strife.
Catching slaves and catching grass valleys are old skills of the nomadic peoples in northern China.
They went to Europe, and the old traditions could not be lost.
Crimea soon discovered a good business to get rich, that is slave trade.
In 1479, the cavalry of the Crimean Khanate had already penetrated into the heart of Europe.
During their first population plunder, they gained more than 18,000 white people.
The arrival of these white people laid a good foundation for the economic construction of the Crimean Khanate. In addition to engaging in infrastructure construction, more slaves were given the status of private slaves. In the manors of the nobles, Slavic white slaves were used to work in large quantities.
In addition, some of the white people who were unusable were put into overseas markets for sale, or became offerings offered by the Crimean Khanate to neighboring countries. They were mainly tributed to their dependent master, the Ottoman Sultan.
This country has existed for more than 300 years. In their history, what supports this country's finances was actually human trafficking. With its territory less than 1/10 of the Golden Horde and its weak military strength, the Crimean Khanate actually manipulated slave trading in the entire European region.
They are really a bunch of talents.
The Golden Horde and the Ottoman Empire's desire for white people made the white people in Crimea a hot commodity. Under the intentional hype, a white man was 3 to 5 times the price of a first-rate good horse. This is much more money than they earned for raising horses and grazing.
They first went to Germany to grab women along the Danube River. But German women were tall and big, not beautiful, and had few customers. Later, they fell in love with Cherks women. They were petite, flexible in limbs, and very cute in appearance. They were often the best choices for slave owners.
However, the number of Cherks was limited and they could not grab too many. It was difficult to make a fortune by relying on them. So the Crimean Khanate turned its target to another race, which was the northern neighbor Slavs.
Starting from the 1670s, the Crimean Khanate began a 200-year foreign war.
The goal of the war is to grab money, food, and women. During such a long period of population plunder, many small countries in Europe have even shown signs of destruction due to the sharp decline in population.
The most miserable thing is the Principality of Mos, which lost millions of Slavs. (It was not until Rakshasa defeated the Ottoman Empire and seized all the territory of the northern coast of the Black Sea. In 1783, the Crimean Khanate, which had existed for more than 300 years, was eventually occupied by Rakshasa. The European nightmare was not over.)
After listening to Yang Fan's introduction, Xiao Niangpi didn't think there was anything strange about this.
Didn’t the Mongolians do these things on the border of the Ming Dynasty? They are just used to doing this. They are very good at doing this and are very familiar with it.
Every time they went south to attack the border of the Ming Dynasty in the spring of the following year of the White Disaster. Like locusts, they burned, killed and robbed everything they passed, robbed all the supplies they needed, and captured everyone as slaves.
Lin Yueru frowned and said, "The Turkuts ran to the lower reaches of the Volga River, which bordered the eastern border of the Crimean Khanate. They would definitely be coerced by the Rakshasa people to attack the Crimean Khanate of the same tribe. They would not be able to live there even if they got there. I guess they had just left the tiger's den and entered the wolf's den."
Yang Fan smiled and said, "Now Tsarist Russia has very weak control over the southern Russian grasslands. They only have a few isolated urban strongholds. There are abundant water and grass, and the western end of the Eurasian grasslands is much better than the eastern end. Turkuts can live a good life for more than a hundred years. However, with the strength of Tsarist Russia in the future, their rule over the southern Russian grasslands will definitely become stronger and stronger. Their good life will probably end."
Xiao Niangpi asked: "What kind of national character do Rakshasa people have?"
Yang Fan said: "They are sickly obsessed with other people's territory. Even if they are weak enough to see, they still have to dream of occupying other people's territory. It's ridiculous. Their biggest two characteristics are their barbarity and shamelessness. As long as they say things do not fall on paper, they do not count. If they fall on paper, they often do not count."
The ladies curled their lips, what kind of virtue is this?
Yang Fan had no good impression of them. Most of the lost territory that was lost back then were occupied by them. In comparison, the fewest ones in the south were incomparable.
In modern times, they are all weak and are deeply trapped in the quagmire. Every year, they celebrate the day of cede from the Qing Dynasty as a festival. They engage in various activities and participate widely. There are so many people in their country who advocate that they should continue to occupy two-thirds of the land outside the Great Wall, as Huang Eluosi.
What era is it, and I still dream.
Chapter completed!