The document discusses new ships and navigation techniques that enabled longer voyages of exploration. It explains that explorers used new ship designs like the caravel, which had features like a clinker built hull, lateen sails, and a rudder that made them faster, easier to steer, and stronger for long voyages. The document also mentions several new navigation aids used by explorers, including the compass, log and line, quadrant, astrolabe, and portolan charts, which helped them measure speed, depth, direction, and chart their course.
1. • What I am Learning to do
• I have learned why explorers went on voyages of exploration
• Today, I will learn the names of new ships and aids to navigation that
made longer voyages possible
• I will be able to explain how the explorers travelled long distances and
found new places
• I will be able to use the key words
names of new ships
21. • Name Aids to Navigation in the space on the left (A)
• Explain what the aid was used for on the right (B)
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• Compass Direction
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22. • Why people started to explore new sea routes?
• What new inventions and improvements made long
sea voyages possible?
• Describe a caravel.
• Why were they faster? easier to steer? stronger?
• Name the new instruments they had.
• How did they measure speed? Depth? Direction?
• What was an astrolabe / quadrant for?
• What were the maps called?
• Who improved the maps? How were they better?