Age of Discovery quiz
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Which Italian staple was unknown in Europe before Columbus?
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Which Europeans were the first to reach the Americas?
Answer: Vikings
Why: Tree rings in wood cut at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland show Vikings were there in the year 1021.
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What did Columbus get badly wrong when planning his voyage?
Answer: Distance to Asia
Why: Portugal's experts turned him down, rightly judging his distance estimate to be about a quarter of the real one.
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Which island did Columbus make his crew swear was Asia's mainland?
Answer: Cuba
Why: Sebastián de Ocampo settled the question in 1508 by sailing all the way around Cuba.
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Which legend began with a chief covered in gold dust?
Answer: El Dorado
Why: Spanish for the gilded one, El Dorado first named the gold-dusted chief, not a lost city of gold.
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Which spice in Indian curries came from the Americas?
Answer: Chili pepper
Why: Black pepper is native to Asia, but chilies arrived in India with Portuguese traders in the 1500s.
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Which storm word did Spanish explorers borrow from the Taíno?
Answer: Hurricane
Why: Canoe and hammock also came into Spanish, and then English, from Taíno words.
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