| A | B |
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| Christopher Columbus | believed he could find Asia by sailing west from Europe. |
| Verrazano | was the first European to reach New York |
| the Dutch | first claimed what is now New York in the 1600's |
| Henry Hudson | explored the Hudson River and claimed it for the Dutch |
| Jacques Cartier | traveled froom the Atlantic up the St. Lawrence River |
| Samuel de Champlain | explored the area south of Quebec and discovered Lake Champlain |
| Latitude | the measure of how far north or south a place is from the equator |
| Longitude | measures the distance east or west of the Prime Meridian |
| Leif Ericsson | a Viking who was the first to land in North America in the year 1000 |
| Marco Polo | travelled overland to China to bring back silk, spices and other exotic goods |
| Vasco da Gama | travelled around the southern tip of Africa to reach India |
| John Cabot | searching for a sea route to China, landed in Newfoundland, Canada |
| Aamerigo Vespucci | travelled down the South American coast and believed that this land, discovered by Columbus was a new continent |
| Vasco de Balboa | sailed to Panama and reached the west coast of Central America |
| Ferdinand Magellan | found a passage to the Pacific Ocean by sailing along the coast of South America |
