Explorers from Spain, Portugal and Italy
Portuguese leader who started a school for navigators.
Prince Henry
First European people known to have visited the Americas and settle in present day Canada.
The Vikings
Trade between Europe and Asia was stopped when the Turks captured this place.
Constantinople
Tool that has a needle that always points north.
Compass
A meeting
Encounter
Portuguese explorer who found a sea route to Asia by sailing around Africa.
Vasco de Gama
Leader of first European settlement in the Americas.
Leif Eriksson
Name of the first European settlement in the Americas.
Vinland
Mapmaker
Cartographer
Small, round hill
Knoll
Italian explorer who figured out that Columbus had not reached Asia.
Amerigo Vespucci
European whose stories of riches in China made traders want to go to Asia.
Marco Polo
Two major problems with Martin Behaim's map.
There continents missing, Africa was too small, etc.
Adventure story that tells about brave deeds of people long ago.
Saga
King or queen
Monarch
European explorer who proved it was possible to reach Asia by sailing west from European. His ship was the first ship to sail around the world.
Ferdinand Magellan
Returned to Europe with stories about the riches in China.
Marco Polo
Local name for island on which Columbus first landed.
Guanahani
Illness many explorers caught because they did not eat enough fruit.
Scurvy
Isthmus
Italian, landed in present day Newfoundland, but told people he found Cathay (China).
Giovanni Caboto
The reason Prince Henry's maps and charts were guarded so closely.
Maps were not easy to make or recreate.
Portuguese explorer who was the first European to sail around the southern tip of Africa.
Bartholomeu Dias
Study of how to plan and control the course of a ship
Navigation
Two terms that mean searching the unknown and searching unknown lands
Exploration and Expedition