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…
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
used by the boat was essential for communication and the safety of its passengers. The Titanic,
During the 1840’s and 1850’s America experienced its golden age in shipping and sailing.1 At the front of this era was Donald McKay whose innovative ship designs lead to the numerous sea speed records, some of which stand today. For most of the early 19th century American ship building consisted of merchant and cargo ships. It took a long time for these ships to sail across seas. With the increased speed came decreased time to wait for pay. Another need for increased speed was the California gold rush of 1849. People wanted to make the trip as quickly as possible in order to stake their claims. Donald McKay’s clipper ships enabled people to do that.
Two of the new technologies that I think has the greatest impact on European exploration are the clock and gunpowder. The clock because explorers can track how long it takes them to get to one place, so they can try to improve their time. Gunpowder because whenever Europeans come across an enemy they can blow them off. Also, gunpowder was really helpful for the European when it can to taking over the New World. In the New World most still used arrows, which was no match for the Europeans mighty muskets and
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
“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.
1. Choose two events that paved the way for European voyages of exploration and discuss how
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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...
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).