UD11. 5. What mistake did Columbus make?

Many people in Ancient Greece believed that the Earth was...

• flat

• oval

• round

Toscanelli, a 15th-century Florentine scientist, believe that...

• there was a new continent to the west of Europe

• there was only one ocean between Asia and

• there was a strip of land between Europe and Asia

The Portuguese believed that, a little further west of the Azores, there was...

• an Asian island

• land

• a new ocean

The Ancient Greeks believed that the circumference of the Earth was about...

• 29 000 kilometres

• 38 000 kilometres

• 40 000 kilometres

Columbus believed that the circumference of the Earth was about...

• 29 000 kilometres

• 38 000 kilometres

• 40 000 kilometres

Columbus believed that the distance between the Canary Islands and Japan was about...

• 4 500 kilometres

• 20 000 kilometres

• 40 000 kilometres

Columbus died without knowing he had reached...

• Africa

• America

• Asia

The first to reach American soil were...

• the Lapps

• the Mongols

• the Vikings

Vasco Núñez de Balboa embarks on his first voyage to the New World

• 1500

• 1509

• 1510

• 1513

• 1519

After settling on the island of Hispaniola, Vasco Núñez de Balboa flees due to debts

• 1500

• 1509

• 1510

• 1513

• 1519