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    No sailors ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by renaissance12 View Post
    No sailors ?
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    Carrack, a three- or four-masted sailing ship
    Caravel, a small, highly maneuverable sailing ship
    Square-rigged caravel, a sailing ship
    Nonius, a system for taking fine measurements on the astrolabe
    Mariner's astrolabe, an inclinometer used to determine the latitude of a ship
    Portuguese nautical cartography, a compendium of navigational and geographic maps
    Cantino planisphere, the earliest extant nautical chart where places are depicted according to their astronomically observed latitudes
    School of Sagres, first court of navigation founded in Sagres
    Chip log, a navigation tool mariners use to estimate the speed of a vessel through water
    Volta do mar, a navigation technique that exploits trade winds to move across the sea

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    Explain me how in hell Portuguese invented the Galician gaita, the Iberian ham (presunto), th moscatel wine (which encompasses a lot of varieties), the churros (super typical Spanish food), the visighotic art or the azulejos

    Well, the post, with a picture of a Spanish ship, tells everything

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