Abstract * Historians take national states as focus (since mid-19th century) * Realize importance of large-scale historical process * Sea/ocean basins as framework for analysis * Not well for absolute/definitive category * Contour/characteristics change dramatically over time * Useful to bring focus to exchange * For > century European/Euro-American treat history almost exclusively to national states * Leopold focus on institution‚ constitution
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owners and stakeholders interested in new sea lanes. Atlantic Ocean After Henry’s navigation successfully reached the difficult Cape Bojador that in 1434‚ a major advance was the introduction of the caravel in the mid-15th century‚ a small ship able to sail windward more than any other in Europe at the time. Evolved from fishing ships designs‚ they were the first that could leave the coastal cabotage navigation and sail safely on the open Atlantic. For celestial navigation Portuguese used ephemeris
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cyclone”. These can also be identified as typhoons.The tropical storms winds must reach at least 74 mph to be considered a hurricane. Anything below this is just considered a tropical depression or a tropical storm. Hurricanes usually only occur in the Atlantic Hurricane season (June 1-November 30). Hurricanes form over warm ocean water. They use the warm moist air as fuel at the bottom of the hurricane. As the huge storm produces high wind speeds‚ it causes water to evaporate.The water vapor evaporates
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The storm will probably continue slowly northward and its effects will be felt as far as the lower portion of the middle Atlantic coast by Friday night." (Page 113)"My family pleaded with me to remain at home‚ said A.R. Wolfram‚ a Galveston shopkeeper‚ but I was determined to go to town. I tried to reassure them and promised that at the first signs of the storm’s approach‚ I would return home. He did go home‚ for lunch‚ but left again to return to work‚ despite the tearful pleadings of my wife and
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The Bermuda Triangle The area where the ships are disappeared is located in the northwestern part of the Atlantic Ocean between Bermuda‚ Puerto Rico and the US city of Miami. By joining these three points with an imaginary line a triangle with an area of over one million kilometers is formed. The world-famous Bermuda Triangle is due to a series of mysterious disappearances of commercial vessels and aircraft not left a trace. In total‚ the region of Bermuda recorded more than 200 incidents‚ including
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BERMUDA TRIANGLE The Bermuda Triangle‚ also known as the Devil’s Triangle‚ is an undefined region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean where a number of aircraft and ships are said to have disappeared under mysterious circumstances. For decades‚ the Atlantic Ocean’s famous Bermuda Triangle has captured the human imagination with unexplained disappearances of ships‚ planes‚ and people. More than 1000 ships and planes have disappeared in the triangle area over the past five centuries and
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Europeans set out to find an ocean passage to the East‚ at a time when very few seamen had ever sailed out of sight of land. Spain and Portugal were nations that looked out on the Atlantic Ocean‚ not inward to the smaller and more peaceful Mediterranean Sea. These nations were ready to venture into the Atlantic and find a route to the East at the same time that new ways of building ships‚ navigation‚ stable governments‚ wealthy kings and queens and growing populations made such voyages possible
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From human error‚ to the lost city of Atlantis all the way to paranormal activity and Extra Terrestrials. Today I will be talking to you about the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle. The Bermuda Triangle is located between three main points in the Atlantic Ocean‚ San Juan‚ Puerto Rico‚ Miami‚ Florida and the Island of Bermuda. The triangle is formed by connecting an imaginary line between these three points with an area of the about 500‚000 to 1‚000‚000 square miles. Flight 19 is said to be one of
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Christopher Columbus Christopher Columbus was a Genoese sea captain who‚ in 1492‚ approached Queen Isabella with an interesting plan‚ which was to try to find a new route to India by sailing west across the Atlantic Ocean. In August 1492‚ Columbus sailed west across the Atlantic towards what he thought would be India‚ but little did he know he’d find our present day America. On October 12th‚ 1492 a lookout aboard the Pinta spotted land‚ which was the present day Bahamas. The natives greated Columbus
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remains as a mystery 2‚000 years later and many conspiracy theories were created. A few theories are‚ Atlantis was mid-Atlantic‚ Atlantis was Antarctica‚ and Atlantis was the legendary Minoan civilization. Overall‚ Atlantis did once exist and can possibly be ‘till this day. First‚ we will begin with how Atlantis was a mid-Atlantic continent that suddenly sank into the ocean. The Atlantic Ocean was only a few hundred feet deep‚ described as a continent flooded by shifting ocean waters that sank in the
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