Galleon Quiz: questions and answers
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1. Who were the first to use a galleon?
The Spanish
2. What was the difference between the galleon and the older types?
It was lower
3. In which year was the São João galleon built?
1534
4. What was the most common gun used aboard a galleon?
Demi-culverin
5. Galleons were widely used until:
18th century
6. What was the name of the Spanish Galeon of Assateague that shipwrecked in 1794?
La Galga
7. What was the flagship vessel in the Joao Rodriguez Cabrilho's 1542 exploration of present-day California in the United States?
San Salvador
8. What is the only original galleon to be conserved?
Vasa
9. Who did the manuscript called "Fragments of Ancient Shipwrightry"?
Mathew Baker
10. In what year did the galleon San Juan Bautista cross the Pacific Ocean?
1614