GLY-1105 Lecture 1: History of Oceanography
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Opportunity to expand/trade through discovery and conquest. Examples: fishing, watercraft design, simple rafts, dugout canoes, ships. Earliest known voyage of discovery: egypt, 2750 bc. This was the exploration of southern arabian peninsula and red sea. Pacific islanders migrated from southeast asia across polynesia from 2500. Colonized hawaii by 500 bc (2500 years) Easter island (rapa nui) by 700 ad to 1200 ad (ages disputed) Polynesian culture developed with navigation and seamanship as its center. Developed a system of mapping relative positions of islands. They also relied on observations of the sea itself: Followed migration patterns of whales, sea turtles & seabirds. Arab traders explored the mediterranean and the indian ocean from. 1500 bc (a trading cartel that continued for 3000 years) Phoenicians 1200-146 bc, great sailors and navigators across. Explored the atlantic coast of europe and africa circumnavigated africa, 590 bc. Calculated the earth circumference of earth in 240 bc.
