5. Scroll through the KEYFRAMES of the movie, then click your mouse a second time to return to the interface.
6. DISCOVERY menu
7. GAME menu
8. EXIT the program
HELP -- REFERENCE SCREEN
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HELP -- REFERENCE SCREEN
1. Keep clicking within the PICTURE WINDOW to continue on your Knowledge Adventure.
2. Click on the arrows, which surround the GLOBE, to make it rotate. Move the SLIDER BAR to zoom in/out on the earth. Click on the SHORT BAR to make the globe go to FULL SCREEN. Click on a red dot to explore a 'hot spot'.
3. The buttons on the bottom of the TEXT screen make the page move up/down. Click on a WORD to see the other reference subjects which begin with that letter, then click on that word to continue exploring.
4. Click on an arrow or click and move the SLIDER to the right/left to advance/retreat the time line.
5. HELP
6. RE-TRACE to the previous screen
7. GAME menu
8. DISCOVERY menu
9. REPEAT narration
10. PRINT text
11. RETURN TO MOVIE
φ JERUSALEM
1000 A.D.
"Most of the maps from the Middle Ages show the world as a flat disc with only three continents - Europe, Asia, and Africa. At the time, the rest of the world lay undiscovered. At the center of the map is the holy city of Jerusalem."
æ BETTER MAPS
1600 A.D.
"Once the discoverers began to return from their travels, and the shape of the world became defined, more accurate maps were able to be drawn."
∙A CHINESE DISCOVERER
138 B.C.
"Almost 2,000 years ago, the ancient Romans and Chinese lived in entirely separate worlds. Both of their civilizations had developed in complete isolation from one another. Mountain ranges, deserts, and vast forests lay between them -- however, the two cultures did know of one another. They traveled along the ancient 'Silk Road', where the rich Romans acquired Chinese silk. The great Chinese explorer, Chang Ch'ien, traveled vast distances, forming links between China, Asia, and the Middle East."
▒THE MUSLIM EXPLORERS
1100 A.D.
"The religion of Islam was founded in the 6th century. Within two centuries, it had spread as far as India and Spain. The famous Muslim discoverer, Al Edrisi, traveled vast distances, mostly over land. His journeys led him from Baghdad, to Mecca, down the coast of Northern Africa, to Delhi and Calicut, India, all the way to Beijing, China. The Arabs invented one of the earliest navigational instruments -- the 'astrolabe'."
σMARCO POLO
1298 A.D.
Polo: "When I was a young man, 16 years of age, my father and uncle took me with them on their second journey. The Mongols had broken through the Great Wall of China and conquered most of the empire, opening China up for trade. We departed from Venice in 1271, first stopping in Jerusalem for the holy oil requested by Kublai Khan, the great Mongol leader. At the edge of the Himalayas I fell ill, and for a year...the caravan waited for me to get stronger. Crossing the mountains showed me the most spectacular country I had ever imagined; vistas with endless views, snowcapped summits in the sky. When crossing the fierce Gobi desert, we placed signs with arrows in the sand to be sure we would begin the next day's travels in the right direction. Passing the Great Wall brought us to the Summer Palace of the Emperor -- after three and a half years of travel. I lived and journeyed through the Orient for 20 years, before returning home to share my wealth of knowledge with the world."
╤THE VIKINGS
1000 A.D.
"Viking means 'man of the creek'. The early Vikings were ruthless warriors who ravaged and plundered their way through the coastal areas of Great Britain and northwest Europe. Five-hundred years before Columbus landed on the shores of America, the Vikings had already discovered the 'New World', establishing a settlement in Newfoundland. Leif Erikson, and other Vikings who had no land of their own, sailed west to seek their fortunes and avoid paying taxes."
LDA GAMA
1498 A.D.
Vasco da Gama: "We had spent centuries chasing the Muslims from Portugal, and now we began to push our way into Muslim territory by sea. Rumors abounded, rumors of mines of gold, hidden deep in West Africa -- we never found them. I followed the path of Bartolomeu Dias, his cowardly crew having been unwilling to complete his last voyage; but my crew held fast as we rounded the Cape, forging up through the churning current, finally crossing the Indian Sea and reaching Calicut. I am the first European to reach India by sea, opening the ocean trade route between Europe and India."
COLUMBUS' FIRST VOYAGE
1492 A.D.
Columbus: "While the Portuguese were sailing to India by way of Africa, I decided that I could accomplish the same goal by sailing west. I believed that the world was round, and I had to lobby like a politician to convince the King and Queen of Spain to invest in my dream. I imagined that Europe, Asia, and Africa were huge bodies of land, wrapping around the globe, and that I could sail west and reach them easily. In 1492, I crossed the great ocean and claimed the island of San Salvador in the name of Spain."
█COLUMBUS' GREAT MISTAKE
1500 A.D.
"I completed a total of four voyages. I started colonies, built fortresses, brought missionaries to convert the Indians and teach them of the Bible and the God in which I believed. I named them 'Indians' because they inhabited the islands off of the country known as India."
"Christopher Columbus never knew the impact and scope of his discovery.
He died before anyone knew that the Americas were a vast land, separating the known world, and nearly doubling its size."
¿THE SOUTH POLE
1911 A.D.
"Antarctica, the coldest place in the world, was the last continent to be explored. Unlike the North Pole, which is made up of a dense sheet of ice, Antarctica has a land mass at its base. Captain James Cook crossed the Antarctic Circle in 1773, but never saw land. About 1820, seal hunters first saw the Antarctic Peninsula. Because of the severity and harshness of the terrain, the South Pole wasn't reached until December 14, 1911, by Roald Amundsen of Norway. Barely a month later, Robert Scott, a British explorer who had his heart set on being the first person to reach the pole, found Amundsen's flag already there -- Scott and his entire team died on the way back."
¿PEARY AND HENSON
1909 A.D.
"Controversy still surrounds the discovery of the North Pole. American naturalist and explorer, Robert Peary, along with Matthew Henson, the first black Arctic explorer, claim that they reached the pole in April of 1909. Some people refused to believe that they could have traveled at the speeds required to make the journey within the number of days that his log indicated, but the claim is generally accepted as true."
»MAGELLAN
1522 A.D.
"While crossing the Pacific, Magellan's men were dying of starvation by the time they reached Tuamoto Archipelago -- and no food or water was found on those islands. The three remaining ships completed the crossing and arrived in Guam, then sailed on to an island in the Philippines. Caught in the midst of a local war, Magellan fought heroically alongside his men...and died in battle. As the voyage continued, one of the remaining ships was captured by the Portuguese. Magellan's flagship, the Victoria, with only 18 men aboard, completed the first voyage around the world in 1522. It would be another 60 years before Francis Drake, the English explorer, would duplicate the feat."
