Which Spanish explorer gave the Philippines their name after Philip II?
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Ruy López de Villalobos
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Which Spanish explorer gave the Philippines their name after Philip II?
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Ruy López de Villalobos
What 1502 Portuguese map is one of the earliest to show Brazil's coast?
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Cantino planisphere
What stone pillar did Portuguese explorers place to mark land claims?
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Padrão
Which 1570 atlas by Abraham Ortelius is often called the first modern atlas?
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Theatrum Orbis Terrarum
What 1569 map projection became famous for aiding marine navigation?
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Mercator projection
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What 1502 Portuguese map is one of the earliest to show Brazil's coast?
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Cantino planisphere
Which 1570 atlas by Abraham Ortelius is often called the first modern atlas?
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Theatrum Orbis Terrarum
What 1569 map projection became famous for aiding marine navigation?
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Mercator projection
What 1529 treaty fixed Spain and Portugal's boundary claims in Asia?
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Treaty of Zaragoza
Which Spanish agency, founded in 1503 in Seville, regulated trade with the Americas?
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Casa de Contratación
At which battle was Ferdinand Magellan killed in 1521?
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Battle of Mactan
At which Indian port did Vasco da Gama land in May 1498?
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Calicut
Which Spartan survivor of Thermopylae later fought and died at Plataea?
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Aristodemus