Exploration Flashcard

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In the 1400s European explorers tested uncharted oceans in search of a better trade route to Russia.

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False

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Very few ship captains had the skill and patience that the astrolabe required.

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True

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Columbus and his men went ashore, becoming the first Europeans to set foot on one of the islands of the Bahamas.

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True

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Believing he was off the coast of India, Columbus called the islanders “Indians.”

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True

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In August 1492, Ferdinand Magellan sailed from Spain with three small ships.

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False

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The Portuguese feared that their line of demarcation was so far to the east that Spain might take over their Asian trade.

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True

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The Treaty of Tordesillas divided the entire unexplored world between just two powers, Spain and France.

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False

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Did Magellan’s ship and the two other remaining ships pass through the strait into the South Sea, which had been discovered and named six years earlier by Vasco Núñez de Balboa?

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True

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In 1519 an expedition led by Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese soldier of fortune, set sail from Seville under the Spanish flag to find a western route to Asia.

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True

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Did Magellan's five ships and 260-man crew sail across the Atlantic and search along the eastern coast of South America for this route?

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True