Columbus
What were the names of Columbus’s three ships?
Niña, Pinta, and Santa María
What was the name of Leif’s father?
Erik the Red
What tool has a needle that always points north?
Compass
Did people already live in the Americas before the explorers came?
Yes
Which Viking sailed to North America long before Columbus?
Leif Erikson
In what year did Columbus first sail across the ocean?
1492
What kind of people were Leif and his family?
Vikings (Norse)
What did sailors use to show where land and water are?
A map
What were the people Columbus met on the islands called?
The Taino
America is named after which explorer?
Amerigo Vespucci
Which king and queen paid for his trip?
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
What island did Erik the Red name, hoping people would want to move there?
What pushes a sailing ship across the ocean?
The wind, caught in its sails
Why did Columbus call the people “Indians”?
He thought he had reached the Indies.
Which Irish monk may have sailed across the ocean long before Columbus?
St. Brendan
Where did Columbus think he was going?
The Indies (Asia), for spices and gold
What did Leif call the new land he found, and why?
Vinland, because he found grapes growing there
Name one thing sailors used the stars or sun for.
Finding their way (navigation)
In Encounter, what warned the Taino boy that the strangers might be dangerous?
A dream
Whose ships were the first to sail all the way around the world?
Ferdinand Magellan’s
How did Columbus get the people of Jamaica to give his men food?
He predicted an eclipse of the moon.
Why was he called “Leif the Lucky”?
He found a new land and rescued shipwrecked sailors on the way home.
Can you “discover” a place where people already live? Why or why not?
Open answer, a good wrap-up discussion
What did the native people think was coming to shore when Columbus' boats arrived?
Birds/Angels
John Cabot sailed for which country?
England