Maantiede ja löytöretket 1 : Vanha aika ja keski aika

Step back into the earliest days when land and water were first charted by the peoples of the Euphrates, the Nile and the ancient Mediterranean. The narrative follows the Phoenicians’ daring trade routes, the Greeks’ myth‑laden maps of Homeric voyages, and the Roman road‑builders who turned geography into a tool of empire. Along the way it traces how scholars such as Strabo, Ptolemy and early Arab geographers measured distances and debated the shape of the world, laying the foundations for modern cartography.

The journey then moves into the medieval era, where wandering monks, Viking navigators and Silk‑Road caravans opened new horizons. Listeners will hear about the crusading pilgrimages, the luminous travelogues of Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta and other chroniclers who bridged continents with stories of distant kingdoms. By the time the age of discovery dawns, the book paints a vivid picture of how curiosity, trade and conquest gradually turned a mysterious globe into a mapped world.