The voyages of hojeda, Vespucci , Pinzón,John Cabot, Cabral and others soon demonstrate that something larger and more impressive than One of the western islands lay to the west, and by the beginning of the 16 century, there was little doubt that the ocean could be and had been crossed
2a what did the early trips by explorers to the Americas show Europeans about their knowledge of the world?
2b what effect did the discovery that the ocean could be cross have Europeans
