| A | B |
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| Ferdinand Magellan | leader of the first group of explorers to circumnavigate the world |
| Leif Eriksson | European who landed in North America, he found Labrador and Newfoundland |
| Bartolomeu Dias | Found the Incan empire and destroyed it for the Spanish |
| Vasco de Gama | travelled around the tip of Africa to Cape of Good Hope and made it to India (Portuguese) |
| Christopher Columbus | Thought he found Asia but it was actual the New World |
| Amerigo Vespucci | Said he found the New World, it was named after him |
| Vasco Nunez de Balboa | Crossed over Panama and found the Pacific Ocean |
| Henry the Navigator | King of Portugal, navigation school, $$ |
| Columbian Exchange | plants, animals, diseases spread between Europe and America |
| Line of Demarcation | Divided the Atlantic Ocean between Spain and Portugal |
| Columbus' impact on the New World | slavery, domesticated animals, conflict, trade with Europe |
| circumnavigate | travel all the way around the globe (Magellan) |
| Treaty of Tordesillas | moved the Line of Demarcation 800 miles west |
| Vikings | first Europeans to touch North America |
| astrolabe | allowed ships to chart their location using stars |
| caravel | used triangle shaped sails to move faster |
| Columbus found | people, wild animals, plants |
| plow and cattle | make farming easier, turned grasslands into farming fields |
| sugar cane | Columbus planted, introduced slavery |
| potato | plantedin Andes, food of the poor |
| thought of Columbus | I found Asia! |
| reasons to explore the New World | religion, spices, learn about Asian cultures |
