| A | B |
|---|
| Marco Polo | The first European to visit the city of Khanbalik |
| Prince Henry | Began the first "school" for sailors |
| Bartholomeu Dias | Sailed to the Cape of Good Hope |
| Vasco da Gama | First European to use an all-water route to the Indies |
| Christopher Columbus | Believed by sailing west, he'd reach the East. |
| Copernicus | Developed the heliocentric theory |
| Galileo | Proved the heliocentric theory |
| Isaac Newton | Discovered the "law of gravity" |
| gravity | What goes up, must come down. |
| compass | Sailing instrument that shows direction. |
| astronomy | study of the stars and planets |
| caravel | Sailing vessel better suited to long voyages. |
| Muslims | Traders who introduced the compass to the Europeans |
| Scientific Method | No idea should be accepted unless it is thoroughly tested. |
| coal | "black stones that would burn" |
| Indies | lands of southern Asia |
| Portugal | Center for learning navigation and sailing. |
| heliocentric | sun as the center of the universe |
| geocentric | earth as the center of the universe |
| Rene Descartes | developed the scientific method |
| Amerigo Vespucci | recognized that Columbus had landed on a "new" continent |
| John Locke | believed that monarchs did not rule by divine right |
| Ferdinand Magellan | his ship was the first to circumnavigate the globe |
| divine right | idea a King's authority to rule comes from God |
