Scavenger History

The participants used a standard deck of playing cards, which had 52 cards in four suits. Participants used cellular devices with 1 second

The Lodestone was a very popular tool of choice for early Mariners. The Lodestone would be the equivalent of today's compasses. “Apparently used by the Olmec in Central America around 1000 B.C. the Lodestone- it is one of the earliest known navigation tools due to its natural magnetic properties, which it gains from being struck by lightning.” “The Chinese used the lodestone compass many years later and so did the early nomadic travelers..”

Problem Statement: In the problem That’s Entertainment we had to find out how the magician did his magic trick using math. The trick was as followed: you will shuffle the card then pull the first one off the top of the deck. For example, if the card is a 3 you’ll place it down then you’ll count up to 12 starting at 3. So if you pull of a 5 you’ll start counting at 5. If you pull out a face card, king, queen, and jack, you place it back into the deck. Once you get to the point where if you pull out a card and are unable to make another pill then you put those cards off to the side. Once you have done this, you will flip the decks, face down, then flip over the top card and add them up. You have to use the information

Nainoa Thompson created the star compass, as the basis for direction finding in non-instrument navigation. The horizon is divided into 32 sections called "houses." Nainoa has placed

already had their own maps. They sailed into the wind by the triangular shaped sails on

Indian voyages on the Indian Ocean were part of a more general development, bordering on current with the Mauryan Empire, in which sailors of assorted origins began to piece together the shores of the “Southern Ocean”, a Chinese term referring to all the waters from the South China Sea to the eastern coast of Africa.  During that time period, the most bodacious sailors were most certainly the Malays; peoples came from what is now Malaysia, Indonesia, the southeastern coast of Vietnam, and the Philippines.

-Historians have debated for years about Polynesian people and their sailing.Despite traveling over the vast Pacific Ocean and not being able to navigateusing the land (because of their distance from it, they could not follow the shoreline) The Polynesians left no written records on how they navigated, andhistorians debate over whether they were actually able to navigate or whetherthey just got lost and found their way through the chain of Hawaiian islands, eventhough some were over 2000 miles away from their home ports. Others say thatpeoples from the Americas settled there instead of the Polynesians, however

Honda-san urged the Japanese emperor and his government to emulate the Europeans system. “Nevertheless, it was the prowess of these particular Europeans in the shipping and trade, dependent on a scientific and mathematical knowledge of navigation, that most interested Honda (Source 21.2, Honda, Toshiaki, in Patterns of World History, Vol. 2, p. S21-11)” Honda admired the way the European mastered shipping and trade through the use of scientific and mathematical knowledge. The Japanese wanted to take initiative, they wanted to prevent their ships from continuing on getting lost in the sea from merely depending on landmarks and mountains for navigation. Honda thought his country needed improvement, he suggested if they developed the methods of navigation, they would reduce the amount of rice and other foods lost at sea (Source 21.2, Honda, Toshiaki, in Patterns of World History, Vol. 2, p. S21-12). Which would greatly benefit the nation’s wealth and stabilize the prices of rice and other food products throughout Japan. Therefore, Honda-san required the Japanese’s to gain knowledge of astronomy and mathematics in order to ensure Japans

When learning about the old Polynesian sailors, I found out that they didn't really have anything to help guide them

Several Chinese inventions improved travel and exploration in Imperial China and the modern world. They include the magnetic compass, paddlewheel boats, canal locks, and segmental arch bridges. Some essential questions you may have will be answered throughout our presentation. To start off, the first Chinese compasses were pieces of a magnetic mineral called lodestone. When a piece of loadstone is placed on wood and put in a bowl of water, the lodestone will turn until it points in a north – south direction. Eventually, the Chinese developed a new compass that gave a more accurate reading. By rubbing a needle with lodestone it made the needle act the same way as the lodestone. The compass made long sea voyages possible because sailors could

✓ A compass and a map, especially a topographic map of the area in which you’ll be hiking

First let's talk about their navigation. One way sailors would navigate is by using a cross staff. The navigator holds one end of the staff near his eye, where both the sun and horizon may be sighted, and then moves the crosspiece along the staff until one end is lined up with the horizon and the other with the sun or star. The angle is read from the scale on the staff. The cross staff required the navigator to look directly into the Sun, almost impossible in bright sun. But it could be used when ship was moving, and it was simple and relatively inexpensive. The variation of the cross staff is the back staff. It is made of wood and was made of two arcs, a larger thirty degree arc and a smaller sixty degree

The first compass was made with lodestone, it a naturally magnetized piece of the mineral magnetite. Chinese fortune teller used lodestone to build their fortune

This was developed further in the 11th century with the Ancient Chinese creation of tiny magnetised needles of steel, one end points south and one end points north, it was the first compass. The compass was very important in naval navigation, before the compass there were no reference points in the ocean so if someone even turned a tenth of a degree in the wrong direction the could end up going hundreds or even thousands of kilometres off their target, the compass gave them a reference point and meant that it was much easier to

Speaking of the compass, I feel as though we can relate rules and regulations to something we all enjoy here in SWFL, boating! A young and adventurous boater just wants to get out there and explore the deep blue beauty of the Gulf of Mexico with no rules or limitations. A seasoned, more experienced captain knows that he needs a compass to guide him so he knows he travels in the right direction and doesn’t wind up in the middle of a storm or wash up on the shores of