It was during the Enlightenment that European scholars first directed their attention to lands beyond the Urals and the Bosporus, and it was then that Europeans began to acquaint themselves with the distant, exotic world of the Orient, which had been cut off from them for so long by barriers of land and sea.
啟蒙時代，歐洲學者第一次將他們的目光焦點，放在烏拉山和博斯普魯斯海峽之外的地方。一個遙遠、奇異的東方世界，於是出現在歐洲人面前。畢竟山海相隔。