Sentences with phrase «age of exploration»

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

While human explorers remain stubbornly stuck in Earth orbit, robotic space probes are preparing for the next great age of exploration: drilling, rolling, sailing, and prospecting where nobody has gone before.

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.»

Mariners» Museum - The Age of Exploration The ability to sail the sea meant wealth and riches to our ancestors.

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.

When the Turks conquered Constantinople in 1453, effectively cutting off Europe's fix, it was collective nutmeg withdrawal that helped propel Europe into its vaunted Age of Exploration.

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.

Now, a new study suggests that the plant's genetics may be the key to unraveling another great age of exploration, one that predated European expansion by several hundred years and remains an anthropological enigma.

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

At the «Mariners» Museum - The Age of Exploration» Web site students can learn about the history of seafaring peoples of the world.

«We're trying to reinstitute that age of exploration,» says Kent.

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.

Thousands of hapless sailors died painful deaths scurvy during the age of exploration because their «Vitamin C» gene was broken.

This is the age of exploration.

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.

The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention That Changed the World, Amir D. Aczel (Harcourt) Aczel chronicles how one of the most revolutionary inventions since the wheel ushered in an age of exploration.

Europeans raced across oceans and continents during the Age of Exploration in search of territory and riches.

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.

Studying the Age of Exploration?

I responded by tweaking the curriculum to begin with the Revolutionary War, not the Age of Exploration.

Many are deciding to rename and refocus the holiday, choosing to call it Indigenous Peoples» Day to honor the people whose lives and cultures were irreparably damaged by the colonial conquest that the age of exploration ushered into being.

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.

During the Age of Exploration, like their owners, these pooches went by the philosophy, «Have sail, will travel!»

Other people claimed that «real travel» ended with the 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 «Age of Exploration» exhibit, films, and ranger - guided programs present interesting insights into the history of Cabrillo.

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.

Established in 1969, Joel Oppenheimer Inc. is located in the landmark Wrigley Building and features an extensive collection of natural - history art from the 17th through 19th centuries, including prints by John James Audubon, John Gould, Pierre - Joseph Redoute, and other artists from the Golden Age of Exploration.

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 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.