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Talk:World History Lecture Eight (view source)
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--[[User:CWaddell|CWaddell]] 21:51, 23 February 2009 (EST)
--[[User:CWaddell|CWaddell]] 21:51, 23 February 2009 (EST)
:Andy, on the role of the caravel, read CP's [[Caravel]], also [[Nao]] and [[Carrack]] as the vessels used by the Iberian nations in the early Age of Exploration. The caravel did much of the early work, especially down Africa, but its role diminished rapidly as soon as things really got under way.
* Magellan did not round the Horn...he went through the Strait of Magellan. As did Drake later. The Horn (which is actually an island) was to be rounded in early 1616 by an expedition co-led by [[Willem Cornelisz Schouten]] and named after his home town of Hoorn in Holland.
*Ivan the Terrible was tsar, or czar, of Russia (the first to be so) from 1547 until his death in 1584. Until 1547 he was Prince of Muscovy (Moscow) [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 23:21, 23 February 2009 (EST)