HIST 1707 Lecture : HIST Class 7.docx
7 Jul 2014
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Columbus not first leader of an expedition to go into the atlantic ocean. Romans, vikings (ended up in newfoundland, had small colonies, but ended up leaving, they were killed by indigenous people), africans none of these people came back though. In 1291 two genoese brothers called the vivaldi brothers lead an expedition to cross the atlantic to reach india. They used galleys (believed that they got off the coast of. Europeans had the transfer of knowledge/technology from asia because of muslim iberia (compass and astrolabe). Dead-reckoning (way of calculating where you are with compass, astrolabe, speed, and astronomical charts). Both of these were vital to navigation and transmitted to europeans from muslim iberia. Ship design the cog was generally used before the era of great exploration. Small boat that could carry large cargoes and heavy seas. Only good when you were going to places you knew with deep waters; not good for exploration.
