The Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa, the first European to cross the isthmus of Panama, saw a body of water he thought was the South Sea. It was actually the ______.
Atlantic Ocean
Pacific Ocean
Gulf of Mexico
Indian Ocean
Caribbean Sea
A
Indian Ocean
B
Pacific Ocean
C
Atlantic Ocean
D
Gulf of Mexico
E
Caribbean Sea
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Pacific Ocean.
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