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Q: What lands did Columbus believe lay on only about 4000 mile?
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What was a 4000 mile long network of trade routes ancient china?

The Silk Road


Famous 4000 mile long manmade structure in china?

The Great Wall of China.


How where public lands in the west divided by the land ordinance of 1785?

Lands were portioned off into townships containing 36 sections of 640 acres (one square mile per section). One side was for a school, and four were for veterans. the rest was given to the public. These were further subdivided into 16 units.


What are land ordinances?

When then western lands of the colonies were divided into 6-mile squares called townships. Then each township was divided into 36 sections of 640 acres each. Then each section could be sold to settlers.


How did Christopher Columbus cross the sea?

At the time that Columbus was making his trip across the Atlantic, very few Portuguese sailors were using celestial navigation and Columbus was not really one of them . Celestial navigation is a technique that measured angles between objects in the sky and the horizon to locate a ship's position on a globe. Instead, Columbus preferred a technique known as dead reckoning . A ship's navigator determines the position of his ship by tracking the distance and direction traveled from a known, fixed point. This technique depended on a navigator being able to accurately gauge the ship's speed and direction; the direction was tracked using a compass and speed was determined using a complicated system of markers. There's some controversy surrounding Columbus' league measurement . A league is made up of four miles, but many countries had a different measurement for how long a mile was. Looking at Columbus' records, the typical "Roman" mile of 4,860 feet is not accurate. Most historians believe he used the Geometric League as a measurement for his travels, where a mile would equal 4,060 feet. Columbus' crew had a bad reputation but it was actually composed of experienced sailors, none of whom were convicts. His most famous ships remain the Pinta, the Nina, and the Santa Maria , the three ships he took on his first voyage . His other ships included the San Juan and the Captiana. There is also a bit of controversy surrounding Columbus' first landing place because he visited five islands before landing on the actual continent of South America. Columbus' original account of his journey disappeared after he gave it to the Queen of Spain. However, on the island of San Salvador, South America, a whitewashed cross has been erected on the beach at Landfall Parks that is widely accepted as his first landing place.