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The Caravel

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The baddest and fastest ship of the 1500s

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Amazing isn't it?

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Pao Bo! No one understands you! Now come to your senses, come down from that foolish hideout! Let's not cause any trouble.

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For the good of everyone around us, quit being so childish! Stop what you are doing!  We can make a deal!

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Nonsense! The 15th century caravel was adapted by the Portuguese and Prince Henry the Navigator himself!

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It is by far the best peice of tecnology of that age——

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You're kidding me!

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The compass was obviously the best peice of technology.

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You know, north and south stuff!

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You imbecile.

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The petty compass would be useless without... the caravel

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The mighty caravel can sail through... headwinds and costal currents,

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using only the best quality of sails out there,

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the Lateen sails.

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The lateen sails gave the boat speed and increased manuverbility,

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and that's why the caravel was used as cargo carriers,

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warships, patrol or dispatch boats and pirate ships.

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The caravel was more beneficial to exploration than the compass ever was.

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There you are very wrong again!  The compass aided exploration more than the caravel, and you know this is true!

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Did the compass ever increase the European Spice trade?

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Or have a shallow keel for sailing...

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upriver and in costal waters?

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Was the compass ever equipped with 2-3 pole masts

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that could be exchanged with lateen sails

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and square atlantic style sails?

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Did it have a hull

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with a rounded bottom that allowed for more cargo

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The caravel took explorers around the Cape of Good Hope to India and Asia for trade and commerce

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faster... than other ships?

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the caravel had no weakness except maybe a limited crew capacity.

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it could sail through open seas

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and shallow rivers.  It could sail for many days... or months

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It took Christopher Columbus to America,

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and the Portuguese, Vasco De Gama to India.

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Explorers were to be witnesses... to the ends of the Earth...

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and that is exactly was some did as they sailed to new lands.

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Yeah. They fufilled Christ's orders... to spread the gospel all over the earth.

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There is one last thing, from now on you will always know the Caravel

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was the ultimate advancement during the age of exploration.

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The ship of adventure and discovery.  Remember the Caravel.

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"Caravel obsessed man speaks out"

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"Man shares thoughts"

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"Insane man"

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"Historian or Maniac?"

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Man proclaims Caravel is THE optimum advancement in technology during the Age of Exploration.