1. MAPPING GLOBAL FRONTIERS, TO 1585

Quiz for Guided Analysis Document 1.1 Martin Waldseemüller and Mathias Ringmann, Universalis Cosmographia, 1507

Quiz for Guided Analysis Document 1.1: Martin Waldseemüller and Mathias Ringmann, Universalis Cosmographia, 1507

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. What does the shape of the Americas suggest regarding European exploration in 1507?

Europeans had conducted more exploration in South America than North America.

Europeans had conducted more exploration in North America than South America.

Europeans believed America and Asia were connected.

Europeans had conducted more exploration in the Americas than in Africa.

2. Which of the following is a reflection of the cartographer’s identities?

The large size of Africa

The large number of Pacific Islands

The distance between North America and Europe

Europe’s location at the center of the map

3. The shape of the map reveals an understanding of which of the following navigational concepts?

Astronomy and navigation by the stars

The presence of both a North and South Pole

The tilt of the earth’s axis

The world was round.

4. Based on the map, the European cartographers were unaware of the existence of

Japan

Italy

India

Antarctica

5. The drawings in and around the map suggest a European belief in

God

gravity

sea monsters

heliocentrism

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