. A brief history of the United States . ames cfc Co., New York. JSuueli A StmiertfEtigt JV. T. Epoch I. EARLY DISCOVERIES AND EOGRAFHICAL Knowledge inthe Fifteenth Century.—The peo-ple of Europe had then never heardof America. About that time, a great^~ desire for geographical knowledge was awakened. The compass andthe astrolabe — an instrument forreckoning latitude — had been al-ready invented. Voyagers were noBALBOA. longer compelled to creep along the shore, but began to strike out boldlyinto the open sea. The art of printing had just come intouse, and books of travel were ea
. A brief history of the United States . ames cfc Co., New York. JSuueli A StmiertfEtigt JV. T. Epoch I. EARLY DISCOVERIES AND EOGRAFHICAL Knowledge inthe Fifteenth Century.—The peo-ple of Europe had then never heardof America. About that time, a great^~ desire for geographical knowledge was awakened. The compass andthe astrolabe — an instrument forreckoning latitude — had been al-ready invented. Voyagers were noBALBOA. longer compelled to creep along the shore, but began to strike out boldlyinto the open sea. The art of printing had just come intouse, and books of travel were eagerly read. Questions on the Geof/rapky of the First XJpoch.—In the accompanying map there are no divisions of the continent, as none existed at that time. Whenthey are called for in the following questions, the object is to test the pupils geo-graphical knowledge. Locate the West Indies. San Salvador (now caUed Guanahani, gwah-nah-hah-ne,and Cat Island). Cuba. Hispaniola or Hayti (hri-te, name given to the island in 1803by Dessalines. See Lipp. Gazetteer.) Newfoundland. Cape Breton. RoanokeIsland. Manhattan Island. Descrioe t
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