Places
Most targeted for Viking raids (chapter 27)
Churches and Monasteries
The habitual criminal that founded Greenland (chapter 28)
Eric the Red
This enabled the sailor to find an absolute direction anywhere on the globe (chapter 29)
The founding of the magnetic compass
The application of the magnetized needle to navigation occurred in China in AD _____ (chapter 29)
AD 1000
The most important aspect of a Viking raid (chapter 27)
Their ships
Where Columbus spent the first 22 years of his life (chapter 30)
Genoa
Sighted Greenland first (chapter 28)
Gunnbjorn
Brought Columbus to Portugal (chapter 30)
The sinking of a Flemish vessel by the French Armada
The founding of Dublin, Ireland (chapter 28)
841
The energy that carried men across the seas (chapter 29)
The wind
By the fourteenth century the compass had come to the ______ and seafaring commerce was enlivened (chapter 29)
The Mediterranean
Was the first recorded to land in the Americas (chapter 28)
Leif Ericsson
In 1484 Columbus __________ to King John (chapter 30)
Made his first formal presentation of the Enterprise of the Indies
Era of the great seafaring adventures of the Vikings (chapter 27)
c. 780-1070
The action that Rollo the Ganger refused to perform to the King when coming to an agreement (chapter 27)
Kneel and kiss the King's foot
Columbus' "mainland of Asia" (chapter 32)
Cuba
Columbus was confident this person would be found on the second voyage (chapter 32)
the Great Khan
September 21-23 Columbus crew sailed into __________ (chapter 31)
Sargasso Sea
Amount of days Columbus was at sea until sighting the Americas
33 days
Most extensively annotated of Columbus' books (Chapter 30)
Imago Mundi
Town of Martin Waldseemuller (chapter 33)
Saint-Die
Named America after Amerigo (chapter 33)
Martin Waldseemuller
setting up a printing press
Departure of Amerigo Vespucci ships to America (chapter 33)
May 18, 1499
This prevented Vespucci from continuing his exploring on his first voyage (chapter 33)
teredos (shipworms) had eaten the hulls of the ships