Who named America?

When was the map known as America’s birth certificate created?

• 1502

• 1501

• 1507

• 1500

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Out of a thousand copies of the map, how many are known to have survived?

• Only one copy

• Around 350 copies

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Label the map below as it was marked in 1507.

• United States of America

• Amerigo

• America

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What does the phrase ‘a crown jewel’ mean in the context of the passage?

• jeweled regal objects such as crowns or scepters

• a bejeweled map or an atlas

• the most important or valuable object

• a missing or stolen artifact

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Fill in the blanks with the correct words.America is named after Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer who (a)   the then (b)   concept that the lands that Christopher Columbus sailed to in 1492 were part of a different continent.

• debated
• introduced
• discouraged
• innovative
• popular
• legendary

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How did the discovery of the Western Hemisphere change existing geographical beliefs?

• It confirmed that the Western Hemisphere was part of eastern Asia.

• It showed that the Western Hemisphere was part of Europe.

• It disproved the existence of the Eastern Hemisphere.

• It revealed a previously unknown "New World," distinct from Asia.

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Classify the information under the medium on which it appeared.

Groups:

(a) Informative video

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(b) The passage

• Amerigo made multiple trips to the ‘New World’

• Amerigo was made the pilot major of Spain in 1508

• Columbus believed that the ‘New World’ was part of Asia

• Waldseemüller’s map was housed in Germany for 350 years

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