Geographical discoveries of the Middle Ages.
In the Middle Ages, Europeans, Chinese and Arabs were engaged in geographical discoveries. The Arabs sailed across the Indian Ocean to Madagascar and to what is now Mozambique.
Ibn Battuta from Morocco in the middle of the 14th century visited most of the lands then known to the Arabs in Europe, North Africa and Asia.
The Chinese were not particularly active in exploring new lands; at the beginning of the 15th century, their fleet reached the shores of Africa, but at this the expeditions stopped.
Europeans began to actively study Asia in the XIII-XIV centuries due to the invasion of the Tatar-Mongols in Europe in 1241. Notes about Asia were left by Rubruk, Montecorvino, Carpini, Marco Polo.
About 1000 the Vikings sailed to the shores of North America, but contacts with it were not established.
