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Advances in learning and

technology that influencedfifteenth- and sixteenth-centuryEuropean exploration and trade

By: Bryce Baxter

AP European History

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Advancements Printing Press

Prince HenrysNavigation Schools

Ptolemy’s World

Map

Navigational Tools

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Printing Press Invented By: Johannes Gutenberg

in 1436

Gutenberg’s Printing Press was based onthe Screw Press which was used for many

other tasks

It allowed more and more people to accessknowledge via books and articles

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Printing Press (Cont.)

Thanks to the printing press, a world mapbecame widely available in the 15th Century.

Gutenberg’s first printing press not only

impacted the 15th

and 16th

century butsparked a new age of communication andprinting known was the PrintingRevolution.

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Printing Press Timeline

Koenig’s Steampowered printingpress

1814

Platen’s Printing

Press1930

WoodcutPrinting Press15th Century

ScrewPress

Early 14th Century

StanhopePrinting Press1842

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Prince Henry’s

Navigation School In 1419 Prince Henry

the Navigator founded aschool for navigators

along the southwesterncoast of Portugal

This gave manytravelers and sailors

knowledge aboutnavigation, mapmaking,

and shipbuilding.

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Prince Henrys Navigational

School (Cont.) Sailors could then better guide their

ships, as well as create new ship

designs.

Prince Henry’s main reasoning forcreating this school, was to give people

better knowledge so that they couldtravel and explore Africa.

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Ptolemy’s World Map  Ptolemy’s World Map became available

in the late fifteenth century. It wasaccepted as the most accurate map of its time.

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Ptolemy’s World Map (Cont.)  The map was taking from Ptolemy’s

Geographia

The map showed the specification of terrestrial locations by celestialobservations.

The map also showed some of the firstuses of Longitudinal and Latitudinallines

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Navigational Tools Sailors and travelers used many

different Navigational Tools when

sailing ships, as well as exploring newland.

These navigational tools evolved over

time and benefited the sailors in manyways.

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Navigational Tools (Cont.) The Evolution of the Compass-

Divider Astrolabe

Before the compass-The compass

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Navigational Tools (Cont.) Measuring water depth:

-By color

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Navigational Tools (Cont.)

 As the world evolved, sailors and travelersmeasured water depth with an instrumentknown as a Hand lead line.

For sailors of the 15th century, theinstrument was used as their ship movedaway from ports and drew near to land to

avoid running ashore or hitting destructiveand deadly shoals.

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Works Cited (Information)

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