<p>It was Portugal, NOT SPAIN, because the question said which country was the first to begin systematically explore… Not specifically New World. Besides, Amerigo Vespucci found the “new world”, Columbus found America</p>
<p>It had to have mentioned the New World, otherwise it wouldn’t be relevant to a US History test. </p>
<p>Vespucci was the first to claim that the New World was a new continent rather than an unknown part of Asia, and he did give the Americas their name, but Columbus still got there first, and a voyage sponsored by the Spanish monarchy would qualify as a systematic exploration.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure it said first country to systematically explore, it didn’t talk about the New World.</p>
<p>Well, I’m pretty sure of the opposite. Until we can get some other people’s input, we’re kind of at a stalemate here.</p>
<p>For everyone thats not sure about the Portugal vs Spain debate, this site should be good: </p>
<p>[European</a> Voyages of Exploration: The Portuguese Empire](<a href=“http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/portuguese.html]European”>http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/portuguese.html)</p>
<p>hey guys,
so i thought this test was out of 80 like on the AP test; 30 minutes in i finished at 80, checked over what I had, and closed my book. I’m obviously not going to that well on this, but how important is it in the long run? I did really well on math2 and pretty good on the physics sat2 yesterday so I don’t want to cancel my scores. Can I just not send in the US SAT2?</p>
<p>(Please don’t answer this if you’re one of those people that thinks the only way to get into college is 800s and 5s on every college board test you take)</p>
<p>ok guys… soo far i have 4 omitted, and like 5 wrong…can i still get above 700?</p>
<p>@treehugga 4 omitted and 5 wrong equals to a raw score of 80. According to the curve on the Blue book for subject tests, that’s easily an 800.</p>
<p>@Genericana and @Coldflame- the question you two are referring two asked which of the following countries began to systematically explore the NEW WORLD. This would lead to the answer of Spain because “in 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue.”</p>
<p>If it said New World, I think it may be Spain… But I recall it saying something like </p>
<p>“Which of the following nations first began to systematically explore the seas?” or something along those lines…</p>
<p>It couldn’t say that because that has NOTHING to do with U.S. history.</p>
<p>Ofcourse it does, because Portugal was so ahead with navigating schools and everything, the Spanish were envious etc etc</p>
<p>Idk, if that’s what it was then you’re right. However, if it included any mention of the new world, then I’m right. Hopefully we both do well.</p>
<p>Yeah, i’m pretty confident it just said something like “first nation to systematically seafare” or something like that, nothing about the new world. Also I have a few queries: </p>
<p>a.) Consensus that LEAST for imperialism was more land for population? </p>
<p>b.) For colonial assemblies, I put something about less power initially and more power as they got power of the purse at the expense of the governor… </p>
<p>c.) Declaration of world war 1 was not because of mexico right… I don’t remember the correct choice… </p>
<p>d.) In the question about systematic exploration… it didn’t reference new world right, it was just “first nation to systematically explore”?</p>
<p>@coldflame:
a) Correct
b) Correct
c) So far youre right, cant remember the choices either…
d)Im with Practical on the spain v. portugal thing… i think the question mentioned something about america/new world.</p>
<p>Anyways, no matter who is right, one question shouldn’t change your score dramatically. And if it happens to be a difference between an 800 and 790, who cares? They’re still both amazing scores that colleges will be very impressed with =D</p>
<p>Any curve predictions?</p>
<p>I’m still thinking -8=800 because there are a lot of ambiguous ones. Hopefully that’s what it is.</p>
<p>about the curves, the kaplan/other practice test curves are the same as the real practice one’s i have in that 81 is 800, but for the real ones the scores go down much quicker and sooner (71 = 740, while Kaplan 71 =760)…can the real curve be like the kaplan one?</p>
<p>I thought its usually -10 = 800?</p>