| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Vikings | aggressive European settlers that were first to the Americas |
| Verrazano | Italian who sailed under the Spanish flag to Hispanola, discovering the Native Americans were already there |
| Vespucci | declared the newly discovered lands to be a new world, and the person after whom our continent is named after |
| Prince Henry | Portugese man who financed school of navigation as well as many voyages |
| Christopher Columbus | Italian explorer who explored North America in search of a Northwest Passage |
| Dias | Portugese sailer whose ships were blown around the tip of Africa |
| Eric the Red | explorer from Norway who started North America settlements in Greenland |
| Cabral | found South America's coast rather that Africa's |
| Da Gama | sailed the first all-water route around the tip of Africa |
| Balboa | discovered a passageway to south sea |
| Magellan | found the peaceful Pacific Ocean by sailing south of South America |
| Cartier | Frenchman who sought the Northwest Passage and claimed part of the present day Canada for France |
| Marco Polo | Italian explorer who wrote a book of his travels overland to China |
| Arawaks | The first "Indians" so called because they were thought to be the residents of India |
| Queen Isabella | She financed Columbus's voyage for Spain |
| Leif Erikson | Viking son who led expeditions to Vinland |
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