Maharashtra HSC Class 12 (Arts) Geographic Discoveries and Explorers — practice questions
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Practice Maharashtra HSC Class 12 (Arts) Geographic Discoveries and Explorers in the app →Who became the first European to reach the Indian port of Calicut by sea?Which explorer organised the first attempt to circumnavigate the Earth?Bartholomew Dias originally named the southern tip of Africa what before its modern name?Christopher Columbus sailed west believing what about the shape of the Earth?Which Portuguese prince of the 15th century funded early Atlantic exploration including Madeira and Azores?The Ottoman conquest of Istanbul (Constantinople) in 1453 forced European powers to do what?Why did Amerigo Vespucci's name become attached to the new continent according to the text?Which 11th-century Persian-language scholar attempted to estimate the Earth's diameter and mapped its round sh