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This invention allowed explorers to navigate on open seas and made the age of exploration possible
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This development in shipbuilding made long voyages possible. The caravel shipsenabled explorers to go on long voyages as they were strong enough to endure different weathers.
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Prince Henry of Portugal set up a navigation school in Sagres in the south of Portugal and sponsored the first voyages of exploration down the west coast of Africa.
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The first explorer to reach the southern tip of Africa, he named it the cape of Good Hope as it gave explorers the hope of finding a new trade route to the east.
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