Age of Discovery
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- We need ships that can carry lots of weight and go on long trips
- That's perfect!
- We can do that. We can also add a stern rudder, use a triangular sail and make a caravel.
- I offer you a magnetic compass and an astrolabe that will help you achieve greater discoveries.
- I'll take them both!
- If cartographers hadn't added ocean currents and longitude lines to maps. We would've never made it here so easily
- Yes, we wouldn't have been able to see Africa up close.
- Did you read Marco Polo's book, Travels, when it came out in 1300?
- Yes, I never knew that there was so much beautiful things out there.
- With this device you'll be the first European to know where your going.
- Is that a magnetic compass? I thought we wouldn't make one in a 100 years, and it's only 1311!
- Welcome class of 1421, to my navigation school here in Sagres, Portugal
- I can't wait to learn from you Prince Henry!
- Navigational School
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