Presentations

1. Motivation:
Political motives:They wanted to own great powers, sea powers, and explorations.
Economy motives: They wanted spicy and good food, so they built land routes. Some wanted to build gold, silver, and valueable stones.
Religion motives: There was only one religion in Europe, Christianity. They wanted to expand their beliefs around the world.
Knowledge motives: The European had the knowledge that the world is bigger than they thought, so they started to explore.
Myths:He started out his route to find the fountain of youth, but instead he found Florida.
People started out their route looking for seven cities of gold in Mexico City.
Score:9
I really like that your group has very organize and detailed power point. It is very pretty. Also, I really like that your group was well prepared with many information that I never heard about before. Very good job!
2. Navigation 1:
Christopher Columbus:He was not the first to explore America, but he had big role in finding Europe.
Sandglass:They used it for determine time.
Pole Star: It is an object that shows the way, basically like a compass.
The log line: They used it to determine their ship speed.
Compas: It was require to learn to use this in order to sail.
Celestial navigation: they use sun, moon, and stars to find their direction.
Quadrant:They used the angle to measure the distance.
Score:9
I like that your group's power point was simple and easy to catch up. I also like how your group explained every devices very well. It was pretty cool listening to new ideas that have not heard before. Great job!
3. Navigation 2:
Pilot was very important to the boat, but they only had good knowledge in certain areas. The chart was called the portolan, which was made of goat or sheep skin. People believed there was marmaid that distract the boats.They only know Atlantic Ocean, Africa, and Europe.
Score:8
I think your group did well, but it seems like your group was not well-prepared enough with the information. However, I still enjoyed the presentation learning about those technics they used back then. I was especially interested in the myth of marmaid, it was quite different from other topics that were mentioned in the presentation. Very well done!
4. Ships
Santa Maria was the tallest of all Columbus's ships. Ships are empty for caring goods for trades. Ship could be small for travel purposes. No engines on the ships, they use winds to motive. Towering is for people to watch far in front of the ship.
Score:8
I learned a lot from very last section of how different ships function in different way. However, the parts before were not so clear. I did not get much information from it. Maybe it was the volume of the speech, or a more detailed power point will be useful. Very well done!