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It can be understood from the passage that Spanish and Portuguese explorers ----.
Dating from 1513, a map drawn by Turkish mariner Piri
Reis is one of the earliest cartographic depictions of the
Americas. Historians have long been fascinated by
many aspects of his map, such as its level of accuracy.
The route to the New World, the Americas, was at first a
secret closely guarded by the Spanish and Portuguese
navigators who were exploring the Atlantic – for
example, Christopher Columbus, who was working for
the Spanish monarchy. Reis surprisingly placed the New
World on the correct longitudinal meridian in relation to
the African continent. His was the earliest known map to
do so. However, similar to other maps of the time, the
scale of this map is inconsistent, with the Americas
drawn much larger than Africa or Asia. Piri Reis wrote
on the map itself that he had consulted other maps in
Arabic, including some classical sources. He also
referred to four contemporary Portuguese maps, as well
as one by Columbus. The mystery remains, however, as
to how Piri Reis gained access to Columbus’s
discoveries.