St. Brendan
St. Brendan was from this Island/country.
What was Ireland?
He was an Viking outlaw and explorer.
Who was Eric the Red?
Columbus's great dream.
What was, to discover a all water route to India by sailing west.
Bartolomeu Dias was the first European to do this.
The land St. Brendan described as having the natives throw flaming rocks at him.
What is Iceland?
What was the Land of Promise of the Saints?
What Eric the Red name the land he discovered.
What is Greenland?
The names of the three ships of Columbus's first voyage.
What are the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria?
Named by Juan Ponce de Leon and means "flowery" because it was on Easter that he landed there.
What is Florida?
The land where Leif Ericsson converted to Christianity.
Where is Norway?
The length of time St. Brendan and his monks journeyed.
What was 7 years?
What is Vinland?
What was 1492?
Because of the book he wrote about the coasts he explored, the "New" World was named for him.
Who was Amerigo Vespucci?
The location of Cape Good Hope.
The type of boat St. Brendan and his monks sailed on.
What is a coracle?
The true location of Vinland is unknown, but thought to be in this location.
What is Newfoundland or Prince Edward Island?
The day Columbus landed in the Americas for the first time.
What is Oct. 12, 1492?
When Balbo got out of his boat in Panama and saw the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean at the same time, he proved this.
What is that the Europeans were not exploring Asia, they were exploring land they did not know existed?
He gave the largest river in South America the name of the "Amazon River."
Who was Amerigo Vespucci?
The year it is thought that St. Brendan set sail.
What was 545 AD?
The reason the Viking of settlement in Vinland failed.
What is war or unrest with the native peoples of the place?
The number of trips Columbus made to the Americas.
What is four (4)?
The Welsh prince who made four trips to bring people to a new place to live in peace.
Who was Madoc?
What is a peninsula?