How did the caravel differ from earlier ships?

a. it was powered by a steam engine.
b. it had several cannons on it for protection.
c. it had square sails to make it faster than earlier ships.
d. it was smaller, lighter, and could be more easily controlled.

The caravels were small and highly maneuverable ships. They were developed by the Portuguese in the fifteenth century for the exploration of the West African coast and the Atlantic Ocean. The lateen sails were the reason for its speed. Spanish and Portuguese made full use of these ships during the Age of Discovery. Caravel is derived from the Portuguese world Caravela. Until the fifteenth century the Europeans used Balinger cargo ships which used one mast and were fragile. The caravels had their origin in Portuguese fishing boats.The caravels were lighter and had up to four masts, they had average capacity of 60 tons and had ellipsoidal frame these factors made the ships highly maneuverable. Christopher Columbus also used this ship for his explorations.

Explanation:

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in the normal course of maintaining a pronoun-antecedent agreement, we could have used the words his or her but since we are also required to use gender-neutral language, we need to replace it with its equivalent gender-neutral pronoun.

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