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History of navigation, an Uncommon card
The history of navigation, or the history of seafaring, is the art of directing vessels upon the open sea through the establishment of its position and course by means of traditional practice, geometry, astronomy, or special instruments.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 79
- DEF
- 98
- Power
- 177
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 26,000
Power 177 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
History of navigation quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the History of navigation card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Taro Kono. Taro Kono 90 · History of Silesia 87 · Lancelot-Grail Cycle 82 · History of navigation 79 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
William Cobbett. William Cobbett 34,000 · History of navigation 26,000 · Black Sea Grain Initiative 20,000 · List of Washington wildfires 15,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Many peoples have excelled as seafarers, prominent among them the Austronesians, the Harappans, the Phoenicians, the Iranians, the ancient Greeks, the Romans, the Arabs, the ancient Indians, the Norse, the Chinese, the Venetians, the Genoese, the Hanseatic Germans, the Portuguese, the Spanish, the English, the French, the Dutch, and the Danes.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The History of navigation article was read about 26,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 79 and blocks with 98: each hit it takes is cut by 39 %.
How to get History of navigation
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
More History cards
Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below History of navigation in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Christopher C. Kraft Jr.Uncommon · Arts · ATK 78 DEF 99
- Frank KlepackiUncommon · Arts · ATK 80 DEF 97
- Paul O'ConnellUncommon · Society · ATK 82 DEF 95
- Alvin DarkUncommon · Society · ATK 86 DEF 91
- André KertészUncommon · Arts · ATK 77 DEF 100
- Nick BoninoUncommon · Society · ATK 87 DEF 90
Card lists
- Wikipedia quizNew questions every day
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, History of navigation (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Gerard van Schagen, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
