Early Exploration Early Exploration Early Exploration VOCABULARY VOCABULARY
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Who were the first European people known to have visited the Americas?
Vikings
100
Who was the Portuguese explorer who started a school for navigators
Prince Henry
100
Which Italian explorer figured out that Columbus had not reached Asia?
Amerigo Vespucci
100
What is searching for the unknown?
exploration
100
What is a narrow strip of land connecting two larger areas of land?
isthmus
200
Who was the leader of the first Europeans to visit the Americas?
Leif Ericksson
200
Which Portuguese explorer was the first European to sail around the southern tip of Africa?
Barthlomeu Diaz
200
What was the body of water that that was reached by Vasco Nunez de Balboa, which he claimed for Spain?
Pacific Ocean
200
What is a map maker?
cartographer
200
What is a journey taken for a special reason?
expedition
300
What was the first globe called?
Earth Apple
300
Which Portuguese explorer was the first European who found a sea route to Asia by sailing around Africa?
Vasco de Gama
300
Who was the first European to lead an expedition that sailed around the world?
Ferdinand Magellan
300
What are kings or/or queens?
monarchy
300
What is an adventure story that tells the brave deeds of people long ago?
saga
400
Who was the first European to create a globe?
Martin Behaim
400
Who was the first European Explorer who sailed to the lands now known as the Americas?
Christopher Columbus
400
What three new advances in science and technology helped stage European Exploration?
Sails that allowed ships to sail into the wind
faster ships
the compass
400
What is an instrument used to find direction?
compass
400
What is a small, round hill?
knoll
500
What was the region where Europeans would go to trade for Asian goods?
Middle East
500
What is the name of the Italian Explorer who landed in present day Newfoundland but told people he had found Cathay?
John Cabot
500
What changes in European government helped stage European Exploration?
the formation of countries with powerful monarchs
500
What is the study of how to plan and control the course of a ship?
navigation
500
What is what country paid for Columbus' exploration?
Spain






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