During the age of exploration, which navigational tool did sailor use to determine their latitude?

The theory is land mass basically what they said.

Well, the correct answer is to reduce federal spendingthis is because he had done a reconstruction of the system to improve it for the future of the united states, but it didn't reduce federal spending pretty much at all. the previous governments made federal spending a huge problem causing the promise to fail because it was pretty much an impossible  task.i hope this mark me as brainiest