Age of Exploraation 1
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- Advances in shipbuilding allowed ships to travel longer distances (12th - 13th Century)
- What a wonderful ship! With this triangular sail and stern rudder we are going faster AND safer than ever! Isnt that amazing Diego?
- Of course dad! Were very lucky to be traveling in a caravel, instead of a regular ship.
- Now nothing will stop us from exploring America!
- Advances with navigational tools allows for better discovery (12th - 13th Century)
- Dad! Ill help you with the astrolabe, so we can find our location!
- Pablo, you need to learn your stars or use the astrolabe to help us!
- Europeans begin to use the magnetic compass (1200's)
- Where did that freaking bear star go? What was it called? Without it we wont be able to know our location!
- Were loosing too many ships! We can't keep sending people to explore new lands or find new routes if they are gonna die!
- Cartographers include ocean currents and longitude/latitude lines to improve their maps (12th - 13th Century)
- Prince Henry the Navigator opens a navigation school in Sagres Portugal (1416)
- I think I know what we can do!
- There must be a way to make these voyages safer, maybe by improving our maps, but how?
- We can show the ocean currents and longitude/latitude lines so people know what currents they'll be phasing and how close they are to the equator and Prime meridian!
- The compass says were going Northwest dad.
- Diego, to which direction are we headed to?
- Make sure you're correct Diego, we don't want to keep going in the wrong direction!
- Does anyone know what this is?
- Its a compass Mr. Henry!
- Both of you are correct!
- NAVIGATION 101
- Yeah, it helps navigators know which direction they are headed!
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