Sentences with phrase «the age of exploration»

When the compass was invented by the Chinese during the Qin dynasty (221 - 206 B.C), it radically changed civilizations and ushered in many years later the Age of Exploration in the 15th century.

Omar, what do you propose to the people of Muslim faith whose ancestors came to this hemisphere along with the Europeans during the Age of Exploration?

It was not until the age of exploration that the issue arose again for Christians.

Portolan charts paved the way for the age of exploration.

But paradoxically, the age of exploration that followed the creation of the portolan charts eventually led to their downfall, as increasingly sophisticated techniques of shipbuilding and mapmaking made them obsolete.

John Grunsfeld, head of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, opted for the latter, telling the celebrants in Laurel, «Five hundred years from now, we will look back on this as the golden age of exploration.»

It's the age of exploration again,» Srigokul Upadhyayula, Ph.D., an instructor in pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital and one of the co-lead authors, said in a statement.

Edinburgh, T. & Day, J. (2016) Estimating the extent of Antarctic summer sea ice during the Heroic Age of Exploration, The Cryosphere, doi: 10.5194 / tc -10-2721-2016.

Studying the Age of Exploration?

You could show episodes when the class reaches any of the following moments in history: * Neolithic revolution * Fertile Crescent * Age of Exploration * Age of Imperialism * Spanish Conquest of South America * Age of New Imperialism

During the great age of exploration, sailing ships would drift for weeks in these places until (so the apocryphal explanation goes) the animals began to die of thirst and were pushed overboard.

The Arabs mastered the art of distilling alcohol (very useful for those long voyages during the Age of Exploration!)

Spirits such as brandy and rum fueled the Age of Exploration, fortifying seamen on long voyages and oiling the pernicious slave trade.

The baseline for assessing damage is usually the natural world as it was before the European age of exploration.

Visit the City's Famous Churches Porto has no shortage of churches, many of which date back to Portugal's golden age of exploration.

You can see foliage and exotic plants from all around the world that were collected by Portuguese explorers during the Age of Exploration.

The visual representation of the game has been inspired by the maps and tools of the Age of Exploration and several key gameplay changes have been made to reflect this, such as expansive cities and active research.

«Europa Universalis IV gives you control of a nation to guide it through the years and create a dominant global empire in the age of exploration, providing unprecedented freedom through the use of exploration, trade, warfare and diplomacy to let you rule your nation however you see fit.

El Dorado is the fifth expansion to Europa Universalis IV and brings to life the conquests, creeds and discoveries synonymous with the Age of Exploration.

Available now for Windows, Mac, and Linux, Conquest of Paradise provides players of Paradox's celebrated strategy game with an all - new set of challenges, sending them to the New World during the age of exploration.

Choose between four different characters and five separate countries for your own oceanic adventure in the Age of Exploration!

Mapping Shakespeare: An exploration of Shakespeare's world through maps, by Jeremy Black (Conway): In both time and space, William Shakespeare's England was located at the heart of the Age of Exploration.

An eclectic collection of maps, records and objects are presented which chronicle the evolution of cities following the Age of Exploration, post colonial phenomena and the impact of migration on the Hong Kong population.

This interest in migration continues into prehistoric transpacific voyages that spread the Austronesian language throughout the Pacific, and sails into the Age of Exploration when the desire for spices launched thousands of ships and networked the first global economy.

The reverberations of the not - so - distant age of exploration are felt in the imagery as Machado often appropriates elements of historically significant etchings and infuses figures and scenery from his own voyaging.

The portraits at the core of this show provide a window on an unsuspected facet of a society deeply impacted by the expanding worldview of the Age of Exploration.

Just as artists in the Age of Exploration were the only ones to offer up images grand and graphic enough to show people back home what the far reaches of the globe can offer, today we must cut through a world saturated with images and stories to see if there can still be a fresh way of expressing one's experiences on the journey, careening through the sea and back and forth from the frozen, empty land.

Stemming from the Age of Exploration and Europe's introduction to loads of new - to - them plant specimens, the tradition of drawing and coloring the world's flora produced meticulous representations that are works of art in their own right.

Not exact matches

Stephen Hawking, who's known for his explorations of time and discovering that black holes can evaporate, died Wednesday at age 76 in his home in Cambridge.

But God has been speaking in secular ways to men and women through the ages; he has led them into more of the truth about the structure and functioning of the world in which they live; he is at work in the areas of human study, explorations research, and enquiry, which have given us this «new» world.

It is time to abandon the ignorance of the dark ages and come to accept the world for the beauty and truths that are evident through diligence and exploration.

The disdain for mystery implied in these two intimately connected standards of exploration has dramatically negative implications for how we regard the natural world in a scientific age.2 Even though initially the quest for clarity and simplicity seems innocent enough, unless carefully contained it can become a weapon of power wielded ruthlessly to hack away the rich undergrowth of vagueness that goes along with any cherishing of mystery.

At age 26, Jackson is not only a restaurant owner, she's also a certified sommelier who relishes the exploration and education of unique wine!

Using a quasi-diary format, Sampson effectively reconstructs Jones's annus mirabilis of 75 years ago and through it creates an affecting exploration of the perfect if utterly conflicted hero for an imperfect age.

The program helps kids ages 7 - 10 build observation skills through hands - on explorations of nature and ecology.

Campers ages 4 — 10 enjoy active, hands - on exploration of Redbrook's trails, bogs, and special habitats.

Equipped with a multitude of drop cloths, natural paint and other sensory materials, you'll be ready to dive in to enjoy all the exploration and expression that art encompasses for every age.

Featuring an array of permanent and special exhibits, live programs and educational films that appeal to audiences of all ages, the Nature Exploration Center encourages visitors to explore the natural world and their connections to it.

Through a variety of fun, age appropriate, educational hands - on activities, stories, live animal encounters, and adventures on Zoo grounds, Toddler Totes takes you and your child on an investigative exploration of the Zoo's animal collection examining animal body parts and adaptations, such as noses on koalas or tails on tigers.

Accredited by the American Camp Association, Moose Hill invites children ages 3 - 14 to have fun and make friends through a blend of outdoor exploration, hands - on / minds - on activities, creative art projects, and noncompetitive games.

We particularly love unique sections like «Nature Study,» which features fun outdoor exploration activity ideas for kids in a range of ages.

Join Leonisa Ardizzone (Dr.. A) of Storefront Science for an afternoon of investigation in Fort Tryon Park on Sat., Aug. 8th from 2 — 3:30 p.m.. Each participant (ages 5 - 11) will receive one of Dr.. A's signature «Explore Outside Your Door» kits, courtesy of the Fort Tryon Park Trust, to continue their exploration of all the wonders of nature.

Combining the history of astronomy with the latest advances in space age technologies, this exciting coloring book combined fun with facts about space exploration and our solar system.

The exploration of aging was a lonely enterprise when he set up his lab at Wake Forest: Relatively few scientists shared his interests, and the annual meeting of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology devoted at most one session to senescence.

«There is an urgent need to determine the precise age and composition of the Moon's youngest volcanism,» says James Head, a specialist in planetary exploration at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

An international team of astronomers led by Yale University and the University of California - Santa Cruz have pushed back the cosmic frontier of galaxy exploration to a time when the universe was only 5 % of its present age.

«It's frustrating because it should be a golden age of planetary exploration because there's so much data that's coming in, but what's missing is the commitment of funding to interpret the measurements,» says Jim Bell, associate professor of astronomy at Cornell University and a science team member on the twin Mars rover mission.

On top of that, explorations occurred during a time of global cooling known as the Little Ice Age, which stretched from the 13th to early 20th centuries.

Kotsonas says that this exploration revealed considerable growth in the size of the settlement during the early Iron Age and also growth in the quantity and quality of its imports coming from mainland Greece, Cyprus, the Near East, Egypt, Italy, Sardinia and the western Mediterranean.

An international team of researchers from NASA Ames Research Center, Environmental and Radiation Health Sciences Directorate at Health Canada, Oxford University, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, Belgian Nuclear Research Centre, Insilico Medicine, the Biogerontology Research Center, Boston University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Lethbridge, Ghent University, Center for Healthy Aging and many others have published a roadmap toward enhancing human radioresistance for space exploration and colonization in the peer - reviewed journal Oncotarget.