Published on: April 16, 20153. Santorini, Greece Santorini is a greek island on the shores of the Mediterranean sea. Fira, the capital of Santorini, is located on the edge of the 400 meter (1,300 ft) high sea cliffs Loading…
Published on: March 3, 2015The compass Ancient mariners navigated by the stars, but that method didn’t work during the day or on cloudy nights, and so it was unsafe to voyage far from land. The Chinese invented the first compass sometime between the 9th and 11th century; it was made of lodestone, a naturally-magnetized iron […]