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Vespucci thought there was a new continent from just being on the island's shore. What was the clue he noticed? The land had a massive __________.
Delta
The maps at that time were ____ _______.
top secret.
It took ___________ years to finish his clock.
Harrison
__________ sailed across the Sea of Okhotsk and then walked across Kamchatka Krai. Then, when he got to the other side, he made another boat.
Bering
_______________taught the Japanese how to build ships.
Will Adams
The ___________ was used to show different maps of the world.
atlas
_____________ invented the backstaff. A tool to find the latitude.
John Davis
____________ gave Bear Island its name because of all the polar bears on the island.
Barents
The _______ Empire was larger than the Roman Empire.
Mongol
Pedro Cabral made two accidental discoveries: modern-day __________________ and ___________.
Brazil and Madagascar.
Bobadilla wasn’t pleased to see Columbus, so he didn’t let Columbus on shore, even though Columbus was trying to warn Bobadilla about the______________
Hurricane
Waldseemuller did not name the new land after himself, instead, he named it after _____________
Vespucci
_________________treasure ships were so much bigger than the European ships that historians were slow to acknowledge it because it was so unbelievable.
Chinese
____________ bought a slave who became one of his closest friends.
Magellan
________________could tell if he was in the ocean by the salt water, and he could tell if he was in a lake or river inland by how fresh the water was.
Magellan
Surtsey Island is a new island in ____________ that was created by a volcano in the last 60 years.
Antarctica
England's Parliament refused to give ____________ the prize money when he clearly won.
Harrison
_____________ discovered the southern coast of Alaska.
Bering
Many people sailed around __________________ and did not realize that it was a whole new continent.
_________'s crew overtook the boat, put ____________ on a long boat, and returned home without him. __________________ was never found again. (same word in all three places)
Hudson
_______________was the first European to set foot on future North Carolina, Virginia, New York, and Massachusetts.
Verrazzano
_________________was the first in a long line of French explorers who would explore the land we now call the country of Canada.
Cartier
________________ thought that California was an island.
Cortes
The Europeans were so desperate to get their valuable spices and silks from the Orient that a few brave soldiers and navigators were willing to try going up ________ even though they knew it was deathly cold up there.
Norway
_____________ map was so well drawn that it was still used 400 years later.
Mercator's