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FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Read the following passage. Then read the questions and select your answer.(1)Very few people know Columbus made for voyages to the New World. (2) The fourth voyage was probably the more interesting one he made. (3) Even though his ships were rotting they had to survive a hurricane. (4)Later, Columbus and his men were marooned on an island for an entire year. (5)After he was rescued, Columbus returned to Spain a sick man, and he returned a dying man.7, What change, if any should be made to sentence 1?
A
Change people to peoples
B
Change for to four
C
Change know to no
D
Make no change.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Columbus made four transatlantic voyages: 1492–93, 1493–96, 1498–1500, and 1502–04. He traveled primarily to the Caribbean, including the Bahamas, Cuba, Santo Domingo, and Jamaica, and in his latter two voyages traveled to the coasts of eastern Central America and northern South America.

Detailed explanation-2: -In actual fact, Columbus did not discover North America. He was the first European to sight the Bahamas archipelago and then the island later named Hispaniola, now split into Haiti and the Dominican Republic. On his subsequent voyages he went farther south, to Central and South America.

Detailed explanation-3: -Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer who stumbled upon the Americas and whose journeys marked the beginning of centuries of transatlantic colonization.

Detailed explanation-4: -Christopher Columbus (Italian: Cristoforo Colombo; Spanish: Cristóbal Colón) made four voyages from Spain to the Caribbean from 1492 to 1503.

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