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This legendary navigator was an Irish monk who set sail across the ocean in a coracle in search of the Land of the Promise of Saints

St. Brendan

100

An icy land discovered by Eric the Red, named deceptively so as to encourage people to move there

Greenland

100

Columbus' three ships

The Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria

100

The explorer that America is named after

Amerigo Vespucci

200

A Viking explorer who discovered Greenland and started a settlement there

Eric the Red

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The name of the land discovered by Leif Ericcson, which we now know to be part of Canada. Hint: It was full of vines

Vinland

200

The kind of boat that St. Brendan sailed across the ocean in

coracle

200

The amount of years it took St Brendan to travel

Seven

300

An Italian sailor who wanted to find the Indies for Spain but instead found the Americas

Christopher Columbus

300

The continent that Columbus was trying to reach but ultimately failed

Asia

300

The year that Columbus sailed the ocean

1492

300
The name that the Vikings gave to the natives in Vinland

Skraelings

400

A man who wanted to find the Fountain of Youth, but was killed in Florida

Juan Ponce de Leon

400

The two continents that Columbus actually ended up finding

North and South America

400

The legendary fountain said to grant eternal youth

The Fountain of Youth

400

The name that Columbus gave his settlement in the New World

Hispaniola

500

The king and queen of Spain who funded Columbus' journey to the New World

Ferdinand and Isabella

500

The ocean that Balboa saw that convinced him that they had discovered a whole new world

Pacific Ocean

500

The two main reasons that Spain wanted to reach the Indies

To spread the Gospel and to get rich

500

The name of Eric the Red's son

Leif Ericcson