A World Event (On Circumnavigation, 1519-1522)
Excerpt from Guillermo Giucci's Tierra del Fuego: La creación del fin del mundo
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The idea of the world as a sphere was an old theoretical presupposition. Only with both the crossing of the Strait of Magellan and circumnavigation were the geographical areas unknown to the Europeans opened to global trade. Therefore, this world event would be inscribed in the annals of history as a marker of the beginning of modernity, the era of maritime colonization that forever altered the notion of radical isolation.