Who Found It
This explorer set out westward, hoping to find "The Promise Land of the Saints."
Who is St. Brendan?
This is the son of Eric the Red.
Who is Leif Ericsson?
The Viking Explorer Eric the Red found this new land.
What is Greenland?
This was the birth place of Christopher Columbus.
What is Genoa, Italy?
This boat looks like an upside-down umbrella and was built by stretching oxen hides over a wooden frame and smearing it with animal fat to make it waterproof.
What is a coracle?
This explorer took 4 trips to what he thought were the "Indies," but were not.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This group of people are known to be Norse explorers or raiders.
Who are the Vikings?
This name was given to the New World after reading about Amerigo Vespucci's voyages.
What is America?
This King and Queen sponsored Christopher Columbus's trip.
Who are King Fernando and Queen Isabel?
These would be heroic tales told by the Vikings.
What are sagas?
This Spanish explorer is known as the first European to discover the Pacific Ocean.
Who is Vasco Nunez de Balboa?
These Viking Warriors would go into battle bare-chested to show their bravery and strength.
Who are berserkers?
The mouth of this river was found in South America.
What is the Amazon?
This was Christopher's great plan.
What is to sail west across the Atlantic Ocean to reach the Indies?
This name was given to the group of native people who the Vikings met in Greenland and Vinland.
Who are The Skraelings?
This Viking explorer discovered Greenland.
Who is Eric the Red?
This explorer was searching for The Fountain of Youth when he discovered Florida.
Who is Ponce de Leon?
When financing an explorer's journey, King Fernando and Queen Isabel had these three goals.
These are the three names of Columbus's ships.
Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria
This is the English translation of the Spanish phrase "San Salvador."
What is Holy Savior?
This Viking explorer discovered lands to the west of Greenland, including Vinland.
Who is Leif Ericsson?
This is the first Christian King of Norway.
Who is Olaf Tryggvason?
This discovery by Balboa showed that Columbus had not discovered a route to the Indies, but to a new world.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This date is when Christopher Columbus landed on San Salvador.
What is October 12, 1492?
This name was given to members of a Dakota Indian tribe, who were said to have resembled Europeans in their looks, language, and ways.
Who are the Mandans?