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Caravel & Circumnavigation
Caravels and carracks reach America, India and the Pacific - for the first time the whole Earth is connected.
Open in the interactive tree →Portuguese caravels with lateen sails could sail against the wind. Columbus reached America in 1492, da Gama India in 1498, and Magellan's expedition circled the Earth in 1519-1522. World trade and colonial empires arose - with commerce and with violence.
Prerequisites
- Sailing Ship~3200 BC
- Geometry (Euclid)~300 BC
- Earth measurement and maps~240 BCCharts and map projections guided ocean voyages
- Compass~1100
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- Compass~1100