If it turned out to be the area you pictured in Post #60 or some of the earlier ones that included the Black Sea, I would not be surprised.
This was a highly active trading area at the time and, before other routes were discovered in the late 1400s and 1500s and humanity started forging west. It was where a high proportion of the land and water travelers passed to get to the east and down the coast of Africa (and for many of the easterners to enter Europe).
It was not only highly important to traders... quite a number of the more adventurous European scholars spent time in this region as well (usually about 2 to 5 years), carrying out research (scouting missions) on behalf of kings (usually gathering information that would help enrich the king, and bringing back treasures and "curiosities" that were not part of the regular trade).
Plus, the Ottoman Empire was on the rise, making the southern Black Sea and the region around it (routes that bridged east and west) of political concern to the powers in Europe.
This was a highly active trading area at the time and, before other routes were discovered in the late 1400s and 1500s and humanity started forging west. It was where a high proportion of the land and water travelers passed to get to the east and down the coast of Africa (and for many of the easterners to enter Europe).
It was not only highly important to traders... quite a number of the more adventurous European scholars spent time in this region as well (usually about 2 to 5 years), carrying out research (scouting missions) on behalf of kings (usually gathering information that would help enrich the king, and bringing back treasures and "curiosities" that were not part of the regular trade).
Plus, the Ottoman Empire was on the rise, making the southern Black Sea and the region around it (routes that bridged east and west) of political concern to the powers in Europe.
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