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Christopher Columbus Influence On Today's Modern Technology

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Do you ever wonder if Christopher Columbus would have landed in India if he had had today’s modern technology? If Christopher Columbus had the modern day technology such as a GPS and radar, his voyage may have possibly led him to India as planned or at least helped him get to America easier. I believe that Columbus would have greatly benefited from the use of today's technology. Celestial navigation is the measuring of latitude using the sun, moon and stars (Pickering) .Columbus used celestial navigation by using a tool called a quadrant (Pickering). The quadrant was a metal plate in the shape of a quarter circle (Pickering). Celestial navigation was not a very accurate way to find latitude, but it was the best Christopher Columbus had. To use the quadrant, you would sight the North Star on one edge and the point that the sting crossed the edges showered the angle of the horizon (Pickering). It was nearly impossible for sailors to find their longitude (Pickering). The only other way to find the longitude was the method of …show more content…

Christopher Columbus’s crew measured time using a sand glass; it was turned every thirty minutes by a ship's boy (Pickerling). To determine midnight they would have to use a Nocturnal (Pickering). A nocturnal tells the time of the night by the rotation of the stars around a celestial pole (Pickerling). What if they flipped the hour glass too late? It must have not been an accurate way to calculate time. If they had a clock they definitely would have had a little bit more time to rest and a more accurate sense of time. On his boat, Christopher Columbus used a regular magnetic compass, which was normally, pretty accurate on land, but on a boat or a plane, it was a different story. The Earth’s magnetism may cause a magnetic compass to be inaccurate, so today a gyro compass is used out at sea because it is not affected by the earth’s magnetism

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“When Christopher Columbus sailed to the Americans. Columbus sailed the America in 1493 because he wanted the sail the world and one of the reasons were because the people thought the planet was flat and Columbus believed the planet was round and then they met the Indians. “According to Document b ‘On August 3, 1492, Columbus set sail from Spain to find an all-water route to Asia. For nearly five months,’ “This shows that Columbus traveled the world on a boat

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C Mira Gosslee Mr. Crook History/Columbus Connection 10/14/2015 Christopher Columbus inspired the group (the french group) in many different ways. Number one, if Christopher didn’t discover America, the french explorers would never have been interested in going to these lands, and number two, Cartier was born just one year after Columbus discovered America. So you can imagine that Cartier, and a lot of other explorers, grew up around the stories of Columbus. This probably sparked imagination and a lot of admiration and inspiration to be just like him, just like Christopher wanted to be like Marco Polo when he was a boy. They changed North America by the Columbian trade, and changed the Indians by trade,

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Christopher Columbus as we know is the historical person credited for the discovery of the New World. Zheng He was a Hui-Chinese mariner, explorer, diplomat and fleet admiral, who commanded voyages to Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and East Africa. Each men and their fleets had two completely different reason for their travel. Christopher Columbus purpose was to find a new trade way to the Asian countries. Zheng He's purpose was to enlarge empires control of seaway trade.

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Christopher Columbus did not actually prove the world was round. Many Europeans at the time did not think that the world was flat so,Was that really a discovery?Kids around the world have been taught that Columbus set sail in 1942 to find a way to the East Indies to show that he was not going to fall of the edge and the world was round not flat. Before,Christopher Columbus was born Aristotle actually had a document where he thought that the earth was a sphere. No one actually proved this but,even during his time no one thought the world was

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In Pauline Watts excerpt, “Science, Religion, and Columbus’s Enterprise of the Indies,” she begins by stating that the idea that Columbus was a scientific innovator might not be entirely true. She then proceeds to present the fact that his “Enterprise of the Indies” which got him his approval to sail drew from many older sources which would point to the fact that he is not as big an innovator as we are led on to believe. The two main sources he supposedly used were the Imago Mundi by Pierre d’Ailly and a group of letters written by Paolo Toscanelli which both stated something related to riches being “reached by sailing west rather than by traveling overland to the east” (15). With this new view of Columbus not exactly being as respectable as

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Columbus was not satisfied though. He wanted to sail, so he set off for Ireland and Iceland with the merchant marine in 1477. Columbus continued to sail and trade, traveling down West Africa and learning about Portuguese navigation. In 1484, Columbus asked King John II for aid in crossing the Atlantic, but he was denied. He refused to give up, though.

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Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in fourteen hundred ninety-two. When one hears the name Christopher Columbus, they tend to think about his discovery of America. What they don’t consider is how his discovery changed and affected America. First of all, Columbus’ discovery provided the start of a long term colonization, which created what we know today as America. People, who immigrated from another country, traveled all over the world to make it to America in hopes of getting land in “The New World”.

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“Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress”, chapter one of “A People’s History of the United States”, written by professor and historian Howard Zinn, concentrates on a different perspective of major events in American history. It begins with the native Bahamian tribe of Arawaks welcoming the Spanish to their shores with gifts and kindness, only then for the reader to be disturbed by a log from Columbus himself – “They willingly traded everything they owned… They would make fine servants… With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.” (Zinn pg.1) In the work, Zinn continues explaining the unnecessary evils Columbus and his men committed unto the unsuspecting natives.

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There are many movies and books that portray traveling through time using a time machine or finding a time capsule. In 1938, the first time capsule was recorded in reference to the one “deemed capable of resisting the effects of time for five thousand years preserving an account of universal achievements embedded in the grounds of the New York World’s fair.” Jones (archaeologist of A.D. 5139) potters about for a while in the region which we have come to regard as New York, finds countless ruins, but little of interest to the historian except a calcified direction sheet to something called a “Time Capsule.” Jones finds the capsule but cannot open it, and decides, after considerable prying at the lid, that it is merely evidence of an archaic

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“Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World” once spoke by Christopher Columbus. Christopher Columbus as the man that discovered the new world and who introduced new plants and animals to both the new and old worlds. After they made their journey towards the new world, just leaving everything else behind. If they would have thought about what to do if they ran into new people they could have handled things differently, instead of invading the Native Americans land and seem threatening. People often forget the good that was brought in because as a society we tend to focus on the negatives then the positives.

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Christopher Columbus was an explorer and navigator born in 1451 in Genoa, Italy. When Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic Ocean from Spain in 1492, he hoped to reach eastern Asia. He thought he had reached Asia when he landed on an island in the Caribbean Sea. In fact he had opened up to Europeans a new world with two continents—North America and South America—and many islands.

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The Water Clock was invented in the early 325 BCE. The next type of clock to be invented was the Pendulum Clock, which uses a swinging weight as it’s time-keeping element. This element swings back and forth at precise time intervals depending

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Using a clock or proper time is one method of measuring time and I believe a clock is a device most people use every day. A unique perspective in regard to this subject is present in a write-up from The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “We can see a clock, but we cannot see time. Time is what we intend to measure with the clock , but what are we measuring? (Dowden).

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What was the role of technology in European Explorations ? I think the role of technology in European explorations was so so important. If you think about it without technology they wouldn 't have made it that far. Some of the technology they had was like the ships without the ships Europe wouldn 't have conquered the world.

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The celestial bodies would provide many measures for passages . “ … the Sun, Moon, planets and stars have provided us a reference for measuring the passage of time throughout our existence ( source #1 ).” We don’t really know that much about how timekeeping really work in the prehistoric eras. What we do know is that many people would measure and record the passage of time. “ Ice-age hunters in

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