Brownworth closes the episode by noting that just four years after Dias rounded the Cape, Columbus discovered America — framing both voyages as consequences of the fall of Constantinople and the Ottoman closure of eastern routes, thus placing the Byzantine endgame at the hinge of the Age of Exploration.
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Episode 16 (3 mentions)
Brownworth closes the episode by noting that just four years after Dias rounded the Cape, Columbus discovered America — framing both voyages as consequences of the fall of Constantinople and the Ottoman closure of eastern routes, thus placing the Byzantine endgame at the hinge of the Age of Exploration.
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