Explorers
Sailed to "India" 5 times
Who was Christopher Columbus?
Church ruler of legend somewhere in the far East that no one could seem to find
Who was Prester John?
(Book 1)
A translucent cylindrical container full of sand, narrow in the middle and wide at the ends
What is an hourglass?
The 'middle of the world'
What is Jerusalem?
People have presumed this to be an egg, sphere, square, circle, etc.
What is the Earth?
Built a settlement and stayed there for 20 years. He called the natives "Skrellings"
Who was Leif Ericson?
Started the age of exploration
Who was Prince Henry (the Navigator) of Portugal?
(Book 1)
The first man to wear one of these was French mathematician and physicist Blaise Pascal
What is a watch?
The Southern tip of Africa
What is the Cape of Good Hope?
The God who bore the Earth on his shoulders in Greek lore.
Who is Atlas?
The first to say that what Columbus Discovered was a whole new continent
This emperor's mother may have found pieces of the real Cross
Who was Constantine?
(Book 1)
Plautus, a Roman, said to "confound him, too, who in this place set up a ________"
What is a Sun Dial?
The Hindus made this fictitious 84,000-mile-high Himalayan the dwelling place for their Gods.
What is Mt. Meru?
The Mesopotamians' attempt at making their own mountains
What was a ziggurat?
The first man to reach India by sea
Who was Vasco da Gama?
The monarchs of Spain when Christopher Columbus set sail
Who were Ferdinand and Isabella?
In 1893, An exact replica of this ship design made a 28-day sail from Scandinavia to Canada
What was the Gökstad?
According to a Hindu text, all people who left Earth went to this place. The text stated its shape depended on how many people went there
What is the Moon?
This, theoretically, rested on Mt. Ararat
What was Noah's Ark?
The first to sail around the Southern tip of Africa
Who was Bartolomeu Dias?
King of Portugal who complained about the messiness of navigators records
Who was King Alfonso V?
The ship the Portuguese invented
What was the caravel?
The victim island of the earliest recorded Viking raid
What is Lindisfarne Island?
This man developed a method of measuring the circumference of the Earth still used today
Who was Eratosthenes?