Vocabulary
The largest bodies of water
What are oceans?
This explorer landed on the island of San Salvador in 1492
What is Christopher Columbus?
The islands that Columbus reached
What are the West Indies?
The name used to refer to Europe after the New World was discovered
What is the Old World?
Columbus thought that if he sailed west he would reach this place
What is Asia?
The study of the earth's surface.
What is geography?
He told Europeans about his journey to China
What is Marco Polo?
The King and Queen who funded Columbus's journey
What are Ferdinand and Isabella?
The largest island in the world that the Vikings found
What is Greenland?
These Scandinavia explorers found a small island between Europe and America called Iceland
What are the Vikings?
The story of what has happened in the life of a country or people.
What is history?
The first Spaniard to reach the Pacific Ocean
What is Vasco de Balboa?
The name that Columbus gave to the people of the New World because he thought he was in India
What are Indians?
A body of land with water on three sides
What is a penninsula?
The New World was named America after this explorer
What is America Vespucci?
A large mass of land
What is a continent?
The Portuguese explorer who sailed around Africa to get to Asia
What is Vasco de Gama?
Name Columbus's 3 ships
What are the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria?
Name the four oceans
What are the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Artic oceans?
This explorer wanted to find the Fountain of Youth
What is Ponce de Leon?
People who study the earth
What are geographers?
John Cabot claimed this land for England in 1947
What is North America?
This continent was responsible for the settlement of America.
What is Europe?
Name the 7 continents
What are Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, North America, South America, and Antarctica?
This Viking explorer named this land because of all the grapes they found there.
What is Vindland?