Question

Which does not describe Christopher Columbus? A. the explorer who made landfall in the Americas and mistakenly called the people he met Indians B. a Portuguese noble who was convinced that the way to reach Asia was by sailing west across the Atlantic C. the seafarer sponsored by Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain D. an Italian explorer whose estimates of the earth's circumference were much too small

Answer 1

D... All the rest are correct I'm pretty sure because what I've read all those happened

Answer 2

Answer:

D. an Italian explorer whose estimates of the earth's circumference were much too small

Explanation:

Christopher Columbus was an Italian navigator, cartographer, admiral, viceroy, and governor-general of the West Indies in the service of the Crown of Castile. He is famous for having discovered the Americas, on October 12, 1492, upon arriving at Guanahani Island, currently in the Bahamas.

He made four trips to the Indies - denomination of the American continent until the publication of the Martin Waldseemüller Planisphere in 1507 - and although he was possibly not the first European explorer of the Americas, he is considered the discoverer of a new continent - that is why he called the New World - for Europe, being the first to draw a round trip route across the Atlantic Ocean and made the news known. This fact decisively drove the worldwide expansion of European civilization, as well as the conquest and colonization by several of its powers in the American continent.