| A | B |
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| saga | adventure story that tells about brave dees of people long ago |
| vikings | first Europeans known to have landed in the Americas |
| knoll | small rounded hill |
| Leif Eriksson | leader of Vikings who hired a crew and sailed to what is now Canada |
| Vineland | name of settlement founded by Vikings |
| encounter | a meeting |
| exploration | searching the unknown |
| Martin Behaim | first person to ever make a map in the shape of a globe |
| cartographer | mapmaker |
| Marco polo | European who's book of travels in China made more and more traders want to go to Asia |
| Constantinople | city in Middle east which was captured by the Turks and closed trade routes between Europe and Asia |
| monarchs | kings and queens |
| compass | instrument used to find direcetions |
| Prince henry | Portugese prince who set up a school to train sailors in navigation |
| navigation | the study of how to plan and control the course of a ship |
| Bartholemeu Dias | sailed around the tip of Africa, what is today called the Cape of Good Hope |
| Vasco de Gama | sailed around Cape of Good Hope to India |
| San Salvador` | an island the first place Columbus landed |
| Guanahani | native's name for the island of San Salvador |
| latitude | lines that run east and west on a globe |
| longitude | lines that run fron the north pole to the south pole |
| Giovanni Caboto | Italian who landed in present day Newfoundland but told people he had landed in China |
| conclusion | a decision or idea reached by thoughtful study |
| Amerigo Vespucci | made voyages which proved that Columbus and Caboto had not sailed to Asia at all but had found another continent, the new world |
| America | name given to the new continent the first time it was put on a map |
| isthmus | narrow strip of land that connects two larger land area |
| Vasco Nunez De Balboa | reached the Pacific Ocean by crossing the Isthmus of Panama |
| expedition | journey taken for a special reason |
| Ferdinand Magellan | his crew was the first to sai around the world |
| scurvy | sickness caused by not getting enough vitamin c |
