There were three main technological advancements during the 15th century. Mapmaking is the first advancement and it helped navigators find accurate locations and measure long distances. By the time of the 15th century, the art of navigation became more popular in which it helped navigators not get lost at sea. Lastly Prince Henry the navigator invented a ship called the Caravel which is a small, but fast Spanish ship. The advantages in mapmaking, navigational tools, and shipbuilding helped navigators during their exploration going into the 15th century. First, mapmaking became a huge advantage during the 15th century because navigators had trouble finding their destinations without any directions. The Contarini-Rosselli had been the …show more content…
first map printed of the entire world which occurred in 1506. Giovanni Matteoo Contarini was the developer of this map and is the only surviving copy in the British Library. The first map that had the name America on it was developed by Martin Waldseemüller. It is the first map to represent the Pacific Ocean and it separated the full Western Hemisphere. In 1516, Martin also invented the map Carta Marina which is more of a detailed map of the first map he created with the title America on it. It has the corrected and more accurate information reflecting off of Albretch Dürer who is an artist. By inventing all of these maps, navigators could find their destination easily and they also started inventing navigational tools. Second, navigation helped navigators not get lost at sea or when the people travelled during their exploration. One of the main navigational tools that is still used today would be the Cross Staff officially made by Johann Werner in 1514. The point of the cross staff is to measure the distance between the stars and measure the height of buildings. Another important navigational tool is the Traverse Board which had 32 different points because a ship could be sailing in any direction. At the bottom of the board, there are four rows of holes and each row represents a half hour watch telling the sailor the speed the ship is going. The Traverse Board is like a computer for the sailors except it does not have a keyboard. The navigational tools really helped the navigators figure out the directions they were going, and now they figured out how to build ships by measuring exact distances. Lastly, shipbuilding was important because navigators needed some type of vehicle to cross the ocean when they went on explorations.
One of the main ships that was invented is called the Carrack. A Carrack is a large merchant ship used in European waters. In 1519, while circumnavigating the globe, Ferdinand Magellan used a Carrack proving it was a reliable ship for a long expedition. The Carrack seemed to be a very popular design. The ship had many details including that the wide beam was twenty-five feet long and the length of the boat was seventy-five. The Carrack had either a third mast or a fourth mast depending on the ship. By building this ship, Magellan could go on any voyage without having to worry about it not working because he knew it was a reliable ship. During the 15th century, navigators had three specific technological advances which were: mapmaking, new navigational tools, and shipbuilding. The new mapmaking let navigators measure certain distances and to see how long their journey could be. Navigational tools were a major advancement because certain tools helped navigators figure out new ways around their destination and or help tell the speed the are going in their ship. Building ships was the main advantage because to go across the ocean, the navigators needed a vehicle in which they thought of building ships. These advancements really helped increase the chance of not getting lost or the navigators ships breaking
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The Exploration Era was a time period when countries and people made journeys overseas to find “the New World.” With the help of the printing press, the discoveries of the Americas were known globally making people curious to explore it themselves. In the map “Distribution of Columbus’ Letter” (Document D), it shows where the letter was published and where it was translated to different. This is due to the printing press. Along with the many documents, the news of Christopher Columbus’ discoveries of “India” or the New World had sparked the curiosity of people all over the world. People became more interested in geography and seeing what’s out there along with the different resources. The New World discovery opened up a new trade route and different trade items. This would create pros and cons like economic growth and slavery. In addition the exploration of the Europeans helped us gain knowledge and get a picture of the Americas. In the “Henricus Martellus’ World Map, 1489” (Document E), it shows the world as they knew it with Europe, Africa, and Asia. The “Martin Waldseemuller's World Map, 1507” was an updated, more correct version of the world we see today. Waldseemuller’s map includes the Americas and was much bigger than Martellus’. The printing press had helped Waldseemuller use this new knowledge to create a map that would depict something
There have been many inventions throughout history and some of them have been a lot more helpful than others. The GPS, the Pacemaker, and the cell phone are all very important innovations made to the new world. Without these modern day inventions a lot of thing and the way we interact would be different
Some of the problems when studying history are the texts and documents that have been discovered are only from perspective. Furthermore, on occasion that one perspective is all there may be for historians to study. A good example of this textual imbalance can be found from the texts about the discovery of the New World; more specifically, the letters of Christopher Columbus and Pêro Vaz de Caminha during their voyages to the New World. Plenty of the text from this time is written from the perspective of the Europeans, as the Indigenous population did not have any written text. What this means is that it provided only one perspective, which can drastically hinder how history is interpreted. Columbus’s letter of his first voyage to the Caribbean
Marco attained many eastern technologies and introduced these innovations to Europeans. Marco Polo brought back a navigation device that was developed by the Chinese called a compass. This allowed the European to go navigate the world and explore in a more efficient way. Marco Polo also brought back “paper, paper currency, porcelain, raw silk, ivory, jade, spices, and noodles” (Historpedia). The most progressive innovation Marco Polo brought back was paper. With this technology, the Europeans developed a printing press. With paper money, people did not have to bring a large amount of coins with them.
The age exploration in Europe began in the 1400s. The rise of strong kingdoms, the desire for trade, improved navigation technology from Ptolemy and Al Idrisi like the astrolabe, compass, and better maps with longitude and latitude, and better ships like the caravel and naus led to a new era of exploration. After the Renaissance people knew the world was flat so they started to use the water more for sailing. The first country to send ships out was Portugal; in 1420, because they were at peace and had enough money they were the first to set out. They began mapping Africa’s coastline and trading with African Kingdoms. Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal taught Sailors when he got too old and could no longer sail. Spain soon followed after
The Vikings in their time were the best shipbuilders and sailors in the world. Their ships were very strong as they were made out of a very long-lasting type of wood, which was oak wood. They thought of many creative ways to make their ships more durable, such as dipping sheep?s wool in tar and then filling in the ships gaps to make it waterproof. The Vikings had long voyages, passing many parts of Europe and simultaneously speeding at least glimpses of their amazing technology skills to the people who saw there ships. For example many people from Ireland and Brittan must have seen their ships as they travelled from their homeland Scandinavia to France in the year 798. But their amazing technology skills would have not been spread throughout the world with out the help of navigation.
How did the Polynesians find their way to Hawaii, over two thousand miles from any other land? Was it over population at home, or political turmoil? Whatever reason for leaving these people used amazing knowledge and skill of the ocean and of the sky to navigate them to this new land. They faced the unknown and braved into the wide-open ocean for long periods of time. The real focus in this paper is on the navigation techniques that they used in these voyages throughout the Pacific.
Using their wooden ships, they raided, traded, explored and settled in Europe, Asia and the North Atlantic islands. They developed different kinds of ships to help them navigate the ocean, seas and even narrow, shallow rivers. One kind of ship was the “knarr.” The knarr was a short, sturdy cargo ship that was mainly used for long ocean voyages and hazardous trips. It mainly used sails, but also had oars in the event that there was no wind on the open water. Another ship was known as the “karve”. They were very similar to the knarr, but had shallower h...
1. Choose two events that paved the way for European voyages of exploration and discuss how
“Some of the world’s greatest inventions came from China.” Much of the world today has still been undiscovered. But without the compass the Chinese and Americans might not have known each other existed. With the compass, explorers were able to navigate their way through many of the seas and land into the Western Hemisphere.
The improvements from this culture spread quickly to other settlements due to the aforementioned higher sea levels which instead of being a hindrance and dividing the cultures, allowed them to use the dividing waterways and the seas as highways. This developed into a maritime culture that enhanced their geographical spread and economies with expanded trade.
As the late 19th century progressed, technological ideas and inventions began to thrive. The notion that technology would impact life as we know it was an unbelievable idea to comprehend. People had no idea that something so simple such as the light bulb would become so vital to them and for century’s to come. Inventions such as, the typewriter, barbed wire, telephone, Kodak camera, and electric stove were created, however the major inventions created and use tremendously today are, Medicine, Electricity, and Transportation.
Gunpowder, the vaccine, blood transfusion, the telescope, surgery, the submarine, the barometer, the submarine, and the microscope are all great inventions that helped change the way people live today. They are some of many scientific inventions that changed the way of life for people.
Many of these industrial inventions was thought to help make life easier. These inventions typically made life easier for men but created more work for women. These advancements also contributed to the expansion of the American diet.
People needed faster and more reliable means of transporting the large number of products being produced from factories. Wooden sail boats became steam powered boiler ships made out of iron and steel that more effectively and reliably moved goods from one place to another while steam powered trains took the place of horses, carts, and wagons and made land travel swift and safe. Practical steam engines and new ways of travel had abrupt effects on employment, resulting in even more factories and mills, and centering even more on cities (“Industrial Revolution,” History.com). Communication improved as well, not just by people being able to travel from one place to the next more quickly. Telegraphs and eventually the telephone and radio resulted in handwritten letters no longer having to survive week long trips, but instead being relayed halfway around the globe in just minutes (Deane 72-74).