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Vocabulary
People
Columbus
Exploration
Potluck
100
A hill
What is a knoll?
100
First European people known to have visited the Americas
Who were the Vikings?
100
Columbus' ships
What were the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria?
100
Ferdinand Magellan named...
Who named the Pacific Ocean?
100
Name of the first European settlement in the Americas
What is Vinland?
200
Makers of maps
What is a cartographer?
200
Leader of the first Europeans to visit the New World
Who is Leif Erikkson?
200
Island on which Columbus first landed
What is Guanahani?
200
New World named after...
Who was Amerigo Vespucci?
200
Emperor of China that Marco Polo met
Who is Kublai Khan?
300
Rulers of Portugal, Spain, France, and England
Who were monarchs?
300
Portuguese leader who started a school for navigators
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
300
Native Americans Columbus first encountered
Who were the Taino's?
300
European whose stories of China and its riches made traders want to go to Asia
Who is Marco Polo?
300
Goods from Asia that Europeans wanted
What is gold, silk, and spices?
400
Instrument used to determine location by using the sun
What is an astrolabe?
400
First European to make a globe
Who is Martin Behaim?
400
Problems Columbus faced on his journey
What is trying to find land and getting along with new people?
400
Globe that was too small and did not have North and South America on it
What is Martin Behaim's globe?
400
Sickness caused by not getting enough Vitamin C
What is scurvy?
500
Strip of land connecting two larger land areas
What is an isthmus?
500
European who proved it was possible to reach Asia by sailing west from Europe
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
500
Trade route between Europe and America
What is the Columbian Exchange?
500
This kept Europeans from searching for unknown lands
What was ships that were too slow, lack of money, and sea monsters in the ocean?
500
Land that connects North America and South America
What is the Isthmus of Panama?