HIS101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Dead Reckoning, North Magnetic Pole, Magnetic Declination
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Warm weather allowed them to sail for longer than ever before. Larger population = incentive to seek out for new land. Written sources based on earlier oral tales. Found houses in newfoundland (viking settlement in north america) Items in sagas suggests there are other settlements to be found. Anachronism: the misplacing of any person, thing, custom, or event outside its proper historical time. Europe on the atlantic in the fifteenth century. After vikings there were little groups of people with incentive to cross atlantic. Difficult to sail west due to the opposing currents. Always rotates towards the earth"s magnetic core. Made of lodestone (crystalline form of magnetite) Magnetic north is not exactly where geographic north is. Columbus said island is perfect for exploitation. People were nice and peaceful, and generous. Spanish did not own the taino people but had the right to their labour. Abused the system and enslaved the people.
