It inspired them in the early days to build up the commerce of Naples. Genoa. and Venice and the great commercial cities of the Mediterranean. Subsequently. after the Mongolian and the Turk and the other nonAryan people blocked the approaches to China and the East. the decadence of those Mediterranean cities began. and then mens thoughts faced the ocean and they endeavored to find a passage to the East across the ocean or around the Cape of Good Hope in Africa. Finally the Portuguese discovered the Indian Ocean around the African continent. Portugal. by reason of her orientral trade. was built up and became for a brief period the great commercial center of Europe.
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Mongolian and Turk people blocked the approaches to China and the East.