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What were caravels and how were they better than what they replaced?
Caravels are ships! They used triangular sails that, unlike traditional square sails, allowed ships to sail against the wind. By replacing oars on the ship's side with rudders at the back of the ship, the Portuguese also greatly improved steering.
What is the difference between a caravel from a galleon?
a caravel is bigger that it and is from the norther part of the world and a galleons is smaller and is from the southern part of the world
What was Christopher Columbus's smallest ship?
The Santa Maria, the Pinta, and the Nina were the 3 ships used by Columbus on his first voyage to America. The Nina was the smallest of these three ships.
What is a ship that can sail into the wind?
caravel
How was the caravel steered?
did caravels had tillers or stering whells?
What was Balboas ships called?
caravel
How do you use caravel in a sentence?
The stamp depicts two caravel ships approaching land
Did Marco polo use a caravel?
Caravel sailing ships were developed in the 15th century, which is from the years 1401-1500. Marco Polo lived from 1254-1324. So, he did not use Caravel ships.
Small Portuguese ships were known as?
Caravel
Meaning of caravel?
A caravel is one of the ships Columbus sailed in that has 2-4 masts and lateen sails.
Why was the caravel an improvement over ships of the past?
light caravel had triangular sails to better control the wind
What is the navigation of Prince Henry the navigator's ships?
caravel
What kind of ships did columbus have?
He had the caravel which has 3 sails.
What makes a caravel unique?
The caravel is more manuevarable and can glide through water easly makeing it more swifter than earlier ships
What was the difference between caravels and earlier ships?
the caravel has triangular sails as well as square sails. Square sails carried the ship forward when the wind was at its back. Triangular sails allowed the caravel to sail into the wind. the caravel was better than other euoopean ships of the time at this type of sailing
What was the ship used by spanish and portuguese explorers?
they used clipper ships
What type of materials are caravel ships made of?
Wood. And various other materials.
