The Age of Exploration Geography and History
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In which direction would the trade winds take your ship if you didn't have a caravel with a lateen sail?
Follow the trade winds northeast before they turned south toward Spain.
How could the lateen sail help you win the race?
It would be easier for you to direct your sails, the triangular lateen sail could be repositioned to harness the wind from any direction.
Given the name trade winds, who might have been the first people to encounter these winds?
People on the trading path and sailors.
What would have happened to Portugal's trade if they had not found a way to sail around the tip of Africa?
They could've found another way or they wouldn't have been able to trade.
Atlantic trade winds north of the equator blow clockwise.
Trade winds