| A | B |
|---|
| Portuguese Prince Henry | Set up navigation school |
| Portuguese sailors | Started the Age of Exploration |
| Navigation | The science of plotting and controlling the course of a ship. |
| Bartholomeu Dias | First European to sail around the southern tip of Africa |
| Vasco da Gama | First European to reach India; established a sea route to Asia |
| Christopher Columbus | Italian sailor; believed he could sail straight west to reach Asia |
| Spanish king Ferdinand and Queen Isabella | Sponsored Christopher Columbus' trip |
| Goals of Spanish king and queen who sponsored Columbus | Spread Spanish power; spread Catholic religion |
| Columbus' 3 ships | Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria |
| Island named by Christopher Columbus | San Salvador(Holy Saviour) |
| People that Columbus met on San Salvador | Tainos |
| Vasco Nunez de Balboa | Spotted the Pacific Ocean |
| Ferdinand Magellan | First person to circumnavigate(go around the world) |
| First ship to sail around the world | Victoria |
| The Aztecs | Saw the Spanish soldiers and believed their God had arrived |
| Conquistador | Conqueror |
| Hernan Cortes | Defeated Aztecs and conquered Mexico |
| Tenochtitlan | Aztec capital |
| Aztec emperor that Cortes betrayed and defeated | Montezuma |
| Seven Cities of Gold | Legend about 7 leaders of Eurpean church who built seven cities |
| Franciso Coronado | Looked for Seven Cities of Gold in Mexico but found Native American villages |
| Bartolome` de las Casas | Spanish priest who defended Native Americans |
| Columbian Exchange | Trade between Europe and Americas after Columbus first trip |
| Epidemic | Spread of disease among many people |
| Spanish introduced this animal to the Americas | Horse |
| Francis Drake | English privateer who burnt the Spanish Invincible Armada |
| Armada | Fleet |
| French captain Jacques Cartier | Sailed the St. Lawrence River |
| Samuel de Chapmplain | Started French settlment in North America; now Canada |
| Henry Hudson | Sailed the Hudson river and claimed the land for the Dutch. |
