... Mongol Princess. Travelling by sea to Iran they reached by a way of Sumtura, South India, India Ocean and the Persian Gulf. They then proceeded over land past Tabris in North Iran along the east coast of the Black Sea and past Constantinople. They arrived home in Venice in 1295 that was a stretch of 14 years of ... of his journey by land but when travelling by sea he was mainly along the coast and the dangers of this were that you might hit rocks or accidently scrape along the bottam of the of the sea so to be successfull you needed a small boat with a shallow draft and prefably an oar ju...

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... powers such as France and Britain all lead to the economic decline of the Republic. Prior to 1650 the Dutch Republic was dominated financially, politically and economically by Amsterdam, the leading banking city in Europe. The Dutch prospered from the Domestic industries of fishing, boat building, textiles and banking. The Dutch were also the most technologically advanced sailors in Europe. The British and French demonstrate that a strong central power is ... location made it vulnerable to attack and economic challenges. Document 3 shows the losses suffered by the Dutch as compared to t...

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