In part because Columbus didn't keep very good logs of his voyages and in part because many of these areas were sparsely habited in the late-1400s, some exact locations are uncertain. I approached this cases with my own discretion. For example, the exact location of his landing in Puerto Rico is debated, but since we are reasonably certain it was on the northwest coast, I thought it was worth including. In contrast, I found sites saying that he visited Cuba on his Fourth Voyage. It's mostly conjecture because there's no strong evidence behind this, and even if he did land there, we have no clue where that landing was. Even if he did visit places that aren't on this map, I'm reasonably sure they were in countries that he already visited.
Also, if you want to talk about your opinion of Columbus here, I'm fine with that. Just remember, as always, to be respectful and stick to arguments that are logic-based rather then emotion-based.
Thanks! Technically, all of the voyages started and ended in Spain, but there was no point in having Spain as an answer twice in a row. For the first two voyages, Portugal just happened to fall on the route back, so they went there first. In contrast, Columbus was under arrest on his third voyage, so I'm guessing they wanted him to take the most direct route to Spain for his trial.
I don't always write nice comments. I always write nice comments when I find a quiz which desserves it in my opinion. Here is an important difference. And I'm glad to say most of your recent quizzes are excellent!
Probably, but I think it must be a very good place to build a city and port. It has been an important city in the Caribbean since then and it still is.
Thanks! I've already had several similar quizzes featured, so if this one doesn't get featured I don't mind. I'm more than content seeing people taking my quizzes and enjoying them and perhaps learning something from them.
Hey JWatson, congratulations about the feature! I was wondering if I could translate some of your quizzes of this series into spanish or help you out with the translation. Anyways, have a good day!
Yeah no problem--I've actually wanted to have this series translated to Spanish for a while. Go ahead and translate whichever ones you want, you have my full permission!
It wasn’t clear from the instructions that you need to enter different territories of the same country separately where they occur consecutively. It didn’t occur to me to enter Spain twice at the start. Might be a good idea to clarify in the intro.
I think that was another thing QM may have removed when he featured this quiz. I included another caveat about it that's pending approval, so hopefully QM will accept it.
That was something that Quizmaster wrote after he featured the quiz, and I think it was just a mistake on his part. I've submitted a request to fix it so hopefully it'll say comments soon.
The general comment on the top of this list suggests that "many of these areas were sparsely habited" at the time of Columbus' voyages. The qualifier "many of" should be taken seriously, but one wouldn't want to engage in the old terra nullius justification of what Columbus did and the next decades and centuries of what followed. In 1541, Bartolome de las Casas was far more impressed with the (then already formerly) dense populations Columbus and his followers encountered.
We're likely never going to find out how large the pre-Columbian population actually was. More modern estimates put the indigenous population of the Caribbean at around 3 million, of which about a third could've possibly have been Taínos.
I don't get why so many people are hating on this quiz, I understood it after a short while and I love the way it's made. The creativity is very cool! Thanks for this quiz!
It's fine, it's just a few stray commenters. Most of the reviews here have been positive and the quiz has a 4.87 rating so I think most people like it. I also have other quizzes like this that have been featured, so I'm not sure what they dislike about this quiz in particular. That being said, it doesn't bother me much. Thanks for taking it!
Also, if you want to talk about your opinion of Columbus here, I'm fine with that. Just remember, as always, to be respectful and stick to arguments that are logic-based rather then emotion-based.