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First European people known to have visited the Americas.
Who are the Vikings?
100
The leader of the first Europeans to visit the Americas.
Who is Leif Eriksson
100
Name of the first European settlement in the Americas.
What is Vinland?
100
First European to make a globe.
Who is Martin Behaim?
100
European whose descriptions of the riches of China make traders want to go to Asia.
Who is Marco Polo?
200
City captured by the Turks, closing off trade routes between Europe and Asia.
What is Constantinople?
200
Portuguese leader who started a school for navigators.
Who is Prince Henry?
200
Portuguese explorer who was the first European to sail around the southern tip of Africa.
Who is Bartholomeu Dias?
200
Portuguese explorer who found a sea route to Asia by sailing around Africa.
Who is Vasco de Gama?
200
Local name for the island on which Columbus first landed.
What is Guanahani?
300
Italian explorer in landed in present day Newfoundland but told people he had found Cathay.
Who is Giovanni Cabato?
300
Italian explorer who figured out that Columbus had not reached Asia.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
300
Body of water reached by Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
300
European who proved it was possible to reach Asia by sailing west from Europe.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
300
A house built partly over a hole dug in the ground.
What is a pit house.
400
A house made of elm bark with large doors at each end; home for several families.
What is a longhouse?
400
A cone shaped house made of a log frame covered by mud or grass.
What is a hogan?
400
An adobe building with rooms on top and next to one another; home for many families.
What is a pueblo?
400
A cone shaped house made of poles covered with buffalo skins.
What is a teepee?
400
A group of families that are related to one another.
What is a clan?
500
The carved post that shows the history of a family.
What is a totem pole?
500
The guardian spirits of Hopis.
What is a kachina?
500
a loose group of governments.
What is a confederation?
500
Holding people against their will and making them carry out orders.
What is slavery?
500
to exchange goods.
What is barter?