In the Age of Exploration,
they used boats to travel by the sea, so the time passed and the technology
advanced a lot.
The
boats were one of the most important thing.
The carrack was the boat used by the
explorers in the Age of Exploration it was a great advanced in the technology
during time. In was built with three masts with triangular sails. The largest
carrack could reach almost 45m (150 feet) and more than 1000 tons.
In
the Age of Exploration with the carrack exist the caravel. Their differences
are that the caravel is smaller and safer because it is easy to navigate, and
the carrack it is bigger and dangerous because is hard to navigate. The caravel
has triangular sails and the carrack square sails.
The technology in these times was very good
for them; they had things such as the astrolabe that is a tool to measured
angles and latitude, and the KA-MAIL that was a tool that help people to
discover the latitude. They also have the quadrants that was used to discover
the height of the Polaris.
Traveling through the sea was not as easy
job, in the past they faced, many dangerous, horrible diseases, huge storms,
back of food and water and also the monsters of the sea. Are just sea animals
like whales and shark.
The hygiene in the carrack was very bad,
because of the bad hygiene, there were no bathrooms or fresh food and they did
not have vitamins. Some of them even eat rats and these ones have more chances
to survive the diseases because of the vitamins, rats have.
