Lesson 3 chapter 2
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GraceCRowing5p on November 8, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Isthmus | a narrow strip of land that connects two large land areas |
| Ferninand Magellan | He led the first expedition to sail around the world. |
| Vasco Nuz de Balboa | He explored the the isthmus that connects Americas and became the first spanish explorer to reach the pacific ocean |
| Christopher Columbus | He believed that he reaches Asia in 1492 (in 1492 columbus sailed the ocean blue) Two events proved that he was wrong |
| Two events that proved Columbus wrong | Amerigo Vespucci sailed to the americas but the places he saw did not match Marco Polo's description of Asia. Balboa crew later reached the pacific ocean. these two events proved that Columbus did not reach asia and Vespucci was right about a unknown land. |
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