| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Leif Ericson | Viking son who led expeditions to vinland |
| Vasco De Gama | Sailed first all water route to Asia |
| Eric the red | explorer from Norway who started settlments in Greenland |
| Queen Isabella | Financed Columbs's Voyage for Spain |
| Marco Polo | Italian explorer who wrote a book about his travels overland to China |
| Bartholomew "Dias | Portugese sailor whose ship was blown around the tip of Africa |
| Prince Henry | Portugese man who financed school of Navigation as well as many Voyages |
| Christopher Columbus | Italian explorer who sailed under the spanish flag to Hispanola discovering the Native Americans already there |
| Arawaks | The first indians so called because they were thought to be the residents of India |
| Vikings | Aggressive European sailors who were the first to America |
| Pedro Cabral | Found South America's coast rather than Africa |
| Amerigo Vespucci | Declared the newly discovered lands to be a New World and the person after whoom our continent was named |
| Jacques Cartier | Frenchman who sought the northwest passage and claimed part of present day Canada for "France |
| Ferdinand Magellan | His crew was the first to sail all the way around the world |
| Vasco Numez De Balboa | Discovered passageway to the South sea |
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