Packet 1: Tossup 12

Note to Moderator: Read Answerline carefully. Note to players: Description Acceptable. This event's central participant erroneously used Al-Farghani’s calculation for the length of a degree. (15[1])The Capitulations of Santa (15[1])Fe authorized (15[1])this event, (15[1]-5[1])which encountered the cacique (“kah-SEE-kay”) Guacanagaríx (15[1]-5[1])(“gwah-kah-nah-GAH-reeks”). A fictional biography created by Washington Irving (15[1])popularized a myth (-5[2])claiming that this event (15[3])disproved (15[2])Flat Earth (-5[1])theories. (15[4])Alfred (15[1])Crosby described (15[1])a process (15[1])that introduced (*) syphilis (-5[1])to Europe (10[1])in the wake of this event. (10[3])Two (10[1])years (10[1])after this event, the Treaty of Tordesillas (10[2]-5[1])partitioned (10[4])territory explored during it between Spain (10[1])and Portugal. For 10 points, name this event, where an explorer journeyed (10[1])to a new land on the Niña, Pinta, (10[2])and Santa Maria. ■END■ (10[4]0[1])

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