Featured Article Quiz #195
Lope Martín
#1 Lope Martín is best known for what achievement?
Being the first to successfully sail from Asia back to the Americas across the Pacific
Being the first to cross the Atlantic from Europe to the Americas
Leading the first permanent European colony in Japan
#2 According to the text, what instrument system did Martín use for navigation during the voyage?
A compass and solar tables
Only star charts with no compass
A sextant and an onboard chronometer
#3 Why did the Real Audiencia of Mexico order Martín to return to the Philippines?
To face Legazpi because he was expected to be executed for allegedly abandoning his fleet
To be appointed as viceroy of New Spain
To establish a colony in Mexico’s north instead of sailing again