Vocabulary
Liberty.
What is freedom?
Viking who was the first European to visit America.
Who was Leif Ericson?
The Viking's name for America.
What is Vinland?
A large mass of land.
What is a continent.
Means loyalty or devotion.
What is allegiance?
What Columbus was really trying to find.
What is India?
Columbus devised a plan to sail here.
What is Asia?
The largest bodies of water.
What are oceans.
The New World.
What is the name given to America?
King and queen of Spain who financed a voyage.
Who is Ferdinand and Isabella?
Columbus was from this country.
What is Italy?
The study of the earth's surface.
What is geography?
People who study the earth.
What are geographers?
Merchant who had traveled to China and wrote about the wonders he had seen there.
Marco Polo traveled east to this place.
What is Cathay (China)?
Viking explorers visit North America.
What is 1000 A.D.?
The four oceans of the world.
What are the Arctic, Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Ocean?
The story of what has happened in the life of a country or people.
What is history.
Sailor who discovered the New World in 1942.
Who is Christopher Columbus.
Island in the West Indies where Columbus first landed.
What is San Salvador?
Columbus, seeking a route to Asia, discovers San Salvador.
What is 1942?
The seven continents of the world.
What are Asia, Africa, Antartica, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America?