Unit 1

Renaissance: The Origins of a Western Worldview

Targets
Skill Builders

Lesson 3

How did the exchange of knowledge and technology make European exploration possible?

  • caravel
  • Indigenous
  • lateens
  • means

The instrument in Figure 5.1 is a cross-staff. It was used during the Age of Exploration, first for astronomy and then for navigation.


The cross-staff is an example of the breakthroughs in technology that made the Age of Exploration possible.

Without this and many other technological achievements during the Renaissance, the Age of Exploration would not have begun.

  Figure 5.1
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