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This legendary navigator was an Irish monk who set sail across the ocean in a coracle in search of the Land of the Promise of Saints
St. Brendan
An icy land discovered by Eric the Red, named deceptively so as to encourage people to move there
Greenland
Columbus' three ships
The Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria
The explorer that America is named after
Amerigo Vespucci
A Viking explorer who discovered Greenland and started a settlement there
Eric the Red
The name of the land discovered by Leif Ericcson, which we now know to be part of Canada. Hint: It was full of vines
Vinland
The kind of boat that St. Brendan sailed across the ocean in
coracle
The amount of years it took St Brendan to travel
Seven
An Italian sailor who wanted to find the Indies for Spain but instead found the Americas
Christopher Columbus
The continent that Columbus was trying to reach but ultimately failed
Asia
The year that Columbus sailed the ocean
1492
Skraelings
A man who wanted to find the Fountain of Youth, but was killed in Florida
Juan Ponce de Leon
The two continents that Columbus actually ended up finding
North and South America
The legendary fountain said to grant eternal youth
The Fountain of Youth
The name that Columbus gave his settlement in the New World
Hispaniola
The king and queen of Spain who funded Columbus' journey to the New World
Ferdinand and Isabella
The ocean that Balboa saw that convinced him that they had discovered a whole new world
Pacific Ocean
The two main reasons that Spain wanted to reach the Indies
To spread the Gospel and to get rich
The name of Eric the Red's son
Leif Ericcson