Histooory chhh 14
Terms
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- a German goldsmith who made the printing press easier
- Johannes Gutenberg
- invented by Guttenberg;long preperation w/ tiny wood blocks
- Moveable Type
- a time period full of changes; new ideas and thoughts
- Renaissance
- increased wealth of Portugal; started school of Navigation in Portugal
- Prince Henry the Navigator
- an ancient astronomical computor which reasoned position
- astrolab
- used to measure altitude of objects
- Quadrant
- a heavy, hard to manage ship used by C.C.
- Carrack
- a lighter, faster and easier ship where the sails were not fixed; the wind carried it
- Caravel
- a catchall word for East Asia
- Indies