This Lesson's
logo is a Spanish caravelle
Question MC 5-1. Correct. Here is the text reference:
The navigator we know as Christopher Columbus was born to a poor family
in Genoa, Italy, probably in 1451. Genoa was an important trading and shipping
center where the young Columbus undoubtedly met navigators and map-makers
who fueled his fascination with the sea. He left Genoa at an early age,
and following a series of adventures ended up in Portugal, where he learned
the latest developments in navigation from the experts gathered by Prince
Henry the Navigator. It was here that Columbus developed his notion of opening
up a trade route to India by sailing west instead of east, as the Portuguese
favored. Although Columbus' idea was basically sound, he grossly underestimated
the size of the earth, and thus the distance from the Iberian Peninsula
to Japan or India by the western route. He also, of course, knew nothing
of the continent that lay between Europe and the Far East.