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

**Quiz for Document 1.2: Piri Reis Map (1513)**

Quiz for Document 1.2: Piri Reis Map (1513)

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1. The Piri Reis map sheds light on which of the following?

The degree to which Turkish cartographers could accurately depict the entire known world

The extent of Reis’s travels through all of the Americas and the northern coast of Antarctica

Turkish cartographers’ familiarity with the coasts of South America and North Africa

The low quality of Turkish cartographers’ work compared to that of Europeans

2. Among the details Piri Reis included on his map are which of the following?

The sites of significant shipwrecks

Some of the Southern Hemisphere’s native animals

The Aztec city of Tenochtitlán

Spaniards torturing Native Americans

3. Reis’s map is significant because it demonstrates that

the Turks were the first to explore the northern coast of Antarctica.

Arabs traveled around South America before Magellan’s voyage.

Turkish cartographers built on Portuguese and Arabic maps.

Turkish cartographers created comprehensive world maps before Europeans did so.

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