1. Document Projects for Exploring American Histories, Document Project 1: Mapping America

**Quiz for Document 1.1: Christopher and Bartolomeo Columbus, Map of Europe and North Africa (c. 1490)**

Quiz for Document 1.1: Christopher and Bartolomeo Columbus, Map of Europe and North Africa (c. 1490)

Select the best answer for each question. Click the “submit” button for each question to turn in your work.

1. This map illustrates which element of Christopher Columbus’s understanding of world geography?

His belief that North America was actually the westernmost part of Asia

The spatial relationship between Europe and North Africa on a circular planet

His contention that the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean were the same body of water

The theory that it would be possible to find a sea route between western Europe and the East

2. The Columbus brothers’ map suggests which of the following conclusions?

Christopher Columbus and his brother revolutionized Europeans’ understanding of the world.

The two brothers spent many years sailing and mapping the coasts of Europe and Africa.

Columbus and his brother were the first to prove that celestial navigation was useful.

Their cartographic expertise facilitated Columbus’s successful voyage to North America.

3. The Columbus brothers’ map was most likely created for

an atlas to be marketed widely to literate Europeans.

Vasco da Gama to be used for his voyage to India.

their own use and that of other Portuguese and Spanish sailors.

the powerful kings who dominated the west coast of Africa.

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