The first European people known to have visited the Americas.
Who are the Vikings?
100
An instrument used to find direction.
What is a compass?
100
The place where Bartolomeu Dias and Vasco da Gama were from.
What is Portugal?
100
Portuguese explorer who found a sea route to Asia by sailing around Africa; he returned to Portugal with his ship full of spices.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
100
Italian explorer who landed in present-day Newfoundland but told people he had found Cathay.
Who is Giovanni Cabato?
200
Explorer who encountered the Taino people and thought he had reached Asia
Who is Christopher Columbus?
200
The study of how to plan and control the course of a ship.
What is navigation?
200
The place where Leif Eriksson lead the Vikings to discover, that the first European settlement in America
What is Vinland?
200
Portuguese explorer who was the first European to sail around the southern tip of Africa; fierce storms and hunger made them turn back, without ever reaching Asia
Who is Bartolomeu Dias?
200
This book was written 200 years after the famous explorer traveled to China and told stories of riches and gold.
What is The Travels of Marco Polo?
300
Portuguese leader who started a school for navigators
Who is Prince Henry?
300
A meeting
What is an encounter?
300
The city captured by the Turks, closing off trade routes between Europe and Asia
What is Constantinople?
300
Italian explorer who figured out that Columbus had not reached Asia. The Americas are named after him.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
300
These are the things that Europeans traded with Asia for. Name at least 2.
What are gold, jewels, silk, perfumes, and spices?
400
European whose descriptions of the riches of China made traders want to go to Asia. His travels were later documented in a book.
Who is Marco Polo?
400
Searching the unknown
What is exploration?
400
The local name for the island on which Columbus first landed.
What is Guanahani?
400
European who proved it was possible to reach Asia by sailing west from Europe. First explorer to sail around the world.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
400
An adventure story that tells about the brave deeds of people long ago.
What is a Saga?
500
The first European to make a globe.
Who is Martin Behaim?
500
Makers of maps
What is a cartographer?
500
The southern-most tip of Africa that Dias and da Gama sailed around on their voyages to India
What is the Cape of Good Hope?
500
Spanish explorer who reached and claimed the body of water that was later named the Pacific Ocean