The Creation of Global Sea Passages in the Early Modern Period

In the early modern period  make a distinction from the earlier as well the later period.One of them was the creation of global sea passages that played a major role in linking different region of the world and which also set a strong network of transportation. In the fourteenth century there were three maritime regions and sea fearing traditions from which mariners were equipped to undertake long ocean voyages of the discovery : the Europeans , the Arab-Indian, and the Chinese. Throughout the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth century’s European rules paid for and encouraged maritime exploration, mapping and reporting that generated extensive systematic knowledge. And it was for the first time that European mariners created are liable sea passage to the new world from the old. The new maritime connection did not supersede older land route, nor did they attract more than a portion of long distance trade. It was European knowledge of and access to these new global routes that conferred a commercial, military and diplomatic edge over other societies. Steady, incremental improvement in ship design and construction, navigational techniques and kills and seaborne armament characterized early modern European shipping fleets. By the late 1700 European mariners even had reliable techniques for measuring longitude as well latitudes.