G8 - Christopher Columbus (Starter))

Columbus always told his crew the exact distance they traveled.

• True

• False

Columbus’s journal entries describe the Taino people as simple and naive in war-like matters.

• True

• False

Columbus believed he could conquer the Taino people with just fifty men.

• True

• False

Columbus’s crew found the journey westward easy and uneventful.

• True

• False

The Taino people traded parrots and gold for European goods.

• True

• False

Columbus recorded that he had seen lights on the night of October 11, 1492.

• True

• False

The first island Columbus landed on was named Guanahani by the Indigenous people.

• True

• False

Columbus mistakenly thought he had reached the Indies in South Asia.

• True

• False

Columbus landed in Florida during his first voyage.

• True

• False

Columbus claimed the New World for the Portuguese Crown.

• True

• False