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| His invention was the printing press. This time period was a time of rebirth in art, science, and learning (The Renaissance!). The printing press allowed many people to share these ideas through books and maps. |
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| How was technology important to Portuguese explorers? |
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Techonology was important to these explorers because they needed maps and navigational tools (astrolabe and compass) and they needed to know their latitude and longitude to know if they were going in the right direction.
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caravel...astrolabe...maps...navigation...compass |
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| Why did the Portuguese explorers have an advantage over the Spanish explorers? |
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| Prince Henry gave the Portuguese explorers knowledge from the School of Navigation, and they had accurate maps from earlier explorers. They also had a special boat called a caravel and Prince Henry hired scientists to improve inventions. |
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| What role did Prince Henry play in exploration? |
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| Prince Henry was the ruler in Portugal and believed in Christianty. He wanted to spread Christianity all over the world. He wasn't willing to share his navigational knowledge. He wanted to control as much exploration as he could. He provided supplies, money, ships, and soldiers to explorers. His motivation was wealth and power! |
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It was a lighter, faster ship. The shape of the sail allows it to use all of the wind, not just get pushed by wind from behind. A disadvantage was that the caravel didn't carry as much cargo. |
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| What was the Reconquista movement? |
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| Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand wanted all of Spain to be Catholic and to have their country united. The Muslims were fighting with the Catholics. It was a movement to spread Catholicism (the Catholic religion) beyond Spain. |
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| What were the reasons for exploring? |
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| The reasons for exploring were: escaping religious persecution; searching for new goods, people, ideas, and land; and spreading Christianity. |
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| He was a child who kept track of time on one of Christopher Columbus's boats (the Santa Maria). He used 1/2 hour glasses full of sand to keep track of a half an hour. At the end of each half hour he would shout out a prayer. This was important because they needed to know the time to know how long they were gone and they also needed to keep their hopes alive with the prayers. |
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