| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Ponce de Leon | Searched for the Fountain of Youth, but found Florida instead. |
| Prince Henry | Not an explorer but started a navigational school in Portugal. |
| Vasco de Gama | Portuguese expolorer who sailed south around the tip of Africa to India. |
| Amerigo Vespucci | A German mapmaker named the New World for him. |
| Sir Francis Drake | English privateer who explorer the western coast of NA and circumnavigated the globe. |
| Christopher Columbus | Italian explorer who said for Spain and discovered the "New World" in 1492. |
| Turks | They shut down the land routes to the Far East and forced Europe to find a "water route to India". |
| Grand Banks | An area rich for fishing off the coast of Newfoundland. |
| Hernando Cortes | A ruthless and cruel conquistador who conquered the Aztecs of Mexico. |
| John Cabot | The Italian explorer who saided for England and discovered Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. |
| Canary Islands | The islands off the coast of Africa where Columbus stopped to fix the Pinta and gather supplies. |
| Indians | The name Columbus gave to the natives when he encountered them. |
| Scurvy | The disease that was very common on sea voyages due to the lack of fruit or vitamin C. |
| Portugal | The European country that boasts the first Navigational School. |
| Italy and Portugal | Two European countries that were not interested in sponsoring Christopher Columbus. |
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