explore the world? Search for Trade Routes Merchant Technology and Exploration Astrolabe The Rise of Strong Kingdoms How did new technology make is possible for Europeans to make long ocean voyages? Early Voyages of Discovery Which leaders were responsible for European exploration of the world? Portugal Leads the way (1-2 questions) Henry the Navigator Vasco de Gama The First Voyage of Columbus (1-2 questions) Christopher Columbus Taino Spanish Conquerors
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At the time, Spain was integrating itself into the modern world and was mesmerized by the imminent mineral source of wealth: gold. Christopher Columbus was an expert sailor and used this to his advantage to voyage the seas in search of the alleged riches and gold found in Asia. In compensation, he would be awarded a percentage of the profits, land ownership, and the glorified title of Admiral of the Ocean Sea. Financially funded by the king with a fleet of ships and a moderately sized crew, Columbus
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The age of Exploration was a wonderful time when many new technologies, lands, and much more was discovered. Explorers included Henry Hudson, John Cabot, Vasco da Gama, Christopher Columbus, Francis Drake, Ferdinand Magellan , and Jacques Cartier. While there was more explorers during this time, when one puts a magnifying glass over these particular explorers we can easily see the lasting effect on the countries that funded each individual explorer. As the age of exploration developed one can start
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exploration started, was because of the dominant trait in all humans, curiosity. Exploration also started due to the capturing of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks in 1453, and the need to find new trade routes. The results of exploration were the discoveries of new resources, new cultures, and the changing of the map. New resources such as tobacco, maize, and potatoes were found in the New World. These crops were sometimes used for food, and other
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As a child, I always enjoyed watching the Discovery health channel and learning and practicing healthy lifestyle habits with my mother. Throughout my life I have developed a strong passion for helping others through direct service however I can. Although my three older siblings have pursued passions in economics and politics that require lots of repetitive desk work, meetings and traveling; I have chosen to take a different route to make a positive impact on the lives of others by combining my interests
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Ghosts have always been with me. Not by choice. At least not on my part. It just happens. I don’t want to believe… but they’ve forced themselves on me. (Thoughtful) Perhaps the old Indian woman did it to me. I lived in her house too long as a child. (Looks at ceiling) At night, footsteps paced the ceiling. Over and over, an impatient march, forever in step to the silent drum. If only this had been my only encounter, I could dismiss it. “The house is settling,” my mother said… but this wasn’t
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Hi guys,we chose a company to show you and evaluate how well infographics used in its official website. This ppt includes three sections,the first section will introduce a company which is Land Rover.The second part is body,we will evaluate some visualization techniques which were applied to official website design and the third part will summarize all infographics mentioned above. OK, let me give you a little bit of information about our topic.Stated simply,the automobile industry is a industry
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The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990, and it still remains operational. It was launched by NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), and ESA (European Space Agency). We chose this as a topic because of the amazing pictures it has captured and all of the galaxies, stars, and nebulas it has discovered. There are many things that go into operating the HST. To transmit the data to the Space Telescope Institute in Baltimore, Maryland
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Link-Local or Site-Local) where messages are to be sent. Apart from the regular multicast address, each unicast address has a special multicast address called its solicited-node address. These solicited-node addresses are used by the IPv6 Neighbor Discovery (ND) Protocol to provide more efficient address resolution than the ARP method used in IPv4. When a host wants to get the layer two address of a datagram destination it sends a Neighbor Solicitation ICMPv6 message containing the IP address of the
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all of the major supermarkets need to buy as they all need a source of food and other products. All of these groups are needed in the system of business if money is to be made. Range Rover Discovery When Range Rover is marketing they take into consideration their business markets. The Range Rover Discovery attracts wealthy families; they do this by showing an image of a family in the car doing family activities such as camping. Another customer type is men. In their adverts they always show a man
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