--- title: Explorers: around Africa and Columbus — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · History description: The 14 test and exam questions of lesson 26 «Explorers: around Africa and Columbus» of the history course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/) / Explorers: around Africa and Columbus # Explorers: around Africa and Columbus The 14 questions of lesson 26 «Explorers: around Africa and Columbus» of the history course of Mova's primary school with their options, 73 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus/). - [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus/t1/) — teacher in a cartoon says columbus proved the earth was round. fix it — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus/t2/) — Your pizza has tomato sauce. What would an Italian pizza in 1400 have lacked? — right ✓ · ★ - [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus/t3/) — A book says Columbus discovered an empty land. What is wrong with that? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus/t4/) — Can someone be both brave and cruel? Which fits Columbus? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus/t5/) — If the Earth really were as small as Columbus thought, where would he have landed? — right ✓ · ★ - [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus/t6/) — lads say the Irish always had potatoes, its like their thing. true? — right ✓ · ★ - [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus/t7/) — Why did Portugal and Spain think they could split the world on a map? — right ✓ · ★ - [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus/t8/) — Who reached the Americas long before Columbus, apart from the people living there? — right ✓ · ★ - [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus/t9/) — Why would a new sea route to India make Portugal rich? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus/t10/) — How long did Columbus sail from the Canary Islands to the Caribbean in 1492? — right ✓ · ★ - [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus/e1/) — Identify the principal error in the calculations of Christopher Columbus. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus/e2/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the voyage of Vasco da Gama in fourteen hundred and ninety-eight? — right ✓ · exam - [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus/e3/) — Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the Treaty of Tordesillas of fourteen hundred and ninety-four. — right ✓ · exam - [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus/e4/) — Ascertain which of the following was conveyed from the Americas to Europe in the course of the Columbian Exchange. — wrong ✗ · exam - ← previous: [25. Printing, the Renaissance and the Reformation](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/25-printing-the-renaissance-and-the-reformation/) - next →: [27. Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the pe…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/27-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there/) - ↑ back to [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/)