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The floating fortress that let Europe stumble into every continent it could mispronounce.
means A large, three- or four-masted sailing ship developed in the 14th and 15th centuries, built for long ocean voyages and heavy cargo, that became the workhorse of early European exploration and trade.
from From Old French 'caraque', borrowed from Arabic 'qarāqir', the plural of 'qurqūr', a type of large merchant ship — the Mediterranean was a crossroads of tongues, and the words for boats sailed as freely as the hulls themselves. Spanish and Portuguese knew the same vessel as the 'nau' or 'carraca', and it was on ships of this build that Columbus and da Gama set out.
- size
- Carried hundreds of tons across open ocean
- columbus ride
- The Santa María was a carrack
- rig
- Three or four masts mixing square and lateen sails
- victoria
- A carrack-type ship first circled the globe
- name origin
- From Arabic qaraqir, a merchant vessel
santa maria — columbus's flagship that crossed the atlantic in 1492
victoria — magellan's caravel-carrack hybrid, only ship to complete the first circumnavigation (1522)
vasco da gama carracks — portuguese fleet of 4 carracks that reached india in 1498