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The caravel differed from earlier ships primarily in its design and versatility. It featured a lighter, more streamlined hull and was equipped with lateen sails, allowing for greater maneuverability and speed, especially in coastal waters and against the wind. This innovation made caravels ideal for exploration, enabling longer voyages and better navigation compared to the bulkier, square-rigged ships of the time. Additionally, the caravel's shallow draft allowed it to access shallower waters, further expanding its utility in trade and exploration.
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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
Do caravel ships have oars?
No.
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 kind of ships did columbus have?
He had the caravel which has 3 sails.
What is the navigation of Prince Henry the navigator's ships?
caravel
What was the ship used by spanish and portuguese explorers?
they used clipper ships
