Although He Did Manage to Discover a World Unknown to Europeans,Christopher

question 56

Multiple Choice

Although he did manage to discover a world unknown to Europeans,Christopher Columbus did so in spite of:

• A) being greatly underfinanced.
• B) gross miscalculation of the earth's size.
• C) his sailor's fears of falling off the edge of the earth.
• D) his lack of a magnetic compass.
• E) all of these

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