1. King Manuel of Portugal chose Christopher Columbus to command another expedition around the Cape of Good Hope.
2. The fleet of Pedro �lvars Cabral was blown far off cours and eventually landed somewhere along the coast of present-day Alaska.
3.The voyage of John Cabot gave France a claim to land in North America.
4.North and South America were named in honor of the explorer Amerigo Vespucci.
5.Balboa named the great blue sea he had found on his expedition the South Sea.
6.Although Ferdinand Magellan was Portuguese, he received funding from England to make a voyage west in search of Asia.
7.The passageway that Magellan's ships found at the southern tip of South America became known as the Strait of Magellan.
8.Magellan's crew renamed the ocean found by Balboa the Pacific Ocean.
9.All three of Magellan's ships were able to make their way back to Spain.
10.Magellan's crew circumnavigated the globe and gave Spain an all-water route to Asia.
2007-10-07
09:26:14
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2007-10-07
09:49:46 ·
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