Europeans stopped exploring for fear of ______________ swallowing their ships and the ___________ boiling the ocean.
What are sea monsters and the sun?
100
The current day countries that were the original lands of the Vikings.
What are Norway, Sweden and Denmark?
100
Was paid $75 to make the first ever globe in Europe
Who is Martin Behaim?
100
Named the Pacific Ocean
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
200
leader of the first Europeans known to have visited the Americas
Who is Leif Eriksson?
200
Europeans _________-sailed ships were slow and could only sail with wind.
What are square?
200
Name of the Viking settlement in Canada; named for the many grape vines growing there
What is Vinland?
200
A maker of maps
What is a cartographer?
200
First European to sail around the southern tip of Africa and on to India
Who is Vasco da Gama?
300
Italian explorer who figured out that Columbus had not reached Asia
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
300
The first European globe was missing these continents:
1.__________________
2.__________________
3.__________________
4.__________________
What are North America, South America, Antarctica and Australia?
300
Type of boat used by the Vikings; could carry up to 35 people
What is a longship?
300
Traveled to Asia and returned with tales of riches, jewels, silks and spices
Who is Marco Polo?
300
the native name for the island on which Columbus landed
What is Guanahani?
400
Portuguese explorer who was the first European to sail around the southern tip of Africa
What is Bartholomeu Dias?
400
Behaim's globe made the Earth seem smaller than it was; a trip from Europe to Asia appeared to be a 3,000 mile trip when today's globe shows it to be about a ______________ mile trip.
What is 10,000?
400
The Vikings later settled in these two northern countries...
What are Iceland and Greenland?
400
the study of how to plan and control the course of a ship
What is navigation?
400
A city captured by the Turks; closed down trade routes between Asia and Europe
What is Constantinople?
500
Italian explorer who claimed to land in China (Cathay) but had actually landed in Newfoundland, Canada
Who is John Cabot or Giovanni Caboto?
500
Disease caused by a lack of Vitamin C
What is scurvy?
500
Vinland was used by the Vikings as a place to __________ and ___________.
What is hunt and fish?
500
Set up the first European school for training sailors, his maps and charts were kept secret
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
500
Waterway near the southern tip of South America that led to the Pacific Ocean