| A | B |
|---|
| Mission | Religious settlement |
| Marco Polo | Explorer and author |
| Balboa | "Found" Pacific Ocean |
| LaSalle | Claimed Louisiana for France |
| Cortez | Conquistador of the Aztecs |
| Amerigo Vespucci | Named "New World" after him |
| Prince Henry | Started school navigation |
| Defeat of the Aztecs | Disease wiped them out |
| Columbus' journeys | New land was colonized |
| Alliance | Agreement |
| Columbian Exchange | Exchange of goods between Europe and Americas |
| Champlain | Founded Quebec |
| Vikings | Europeans who never colonized North America |
| Northwest Passage | Waterway around North America |
| Colony | Distant land ruled by native land |
| England, France, Netherlands | Tried to find Northwest Passage |
| Dias | First explorer to sail around tip of Africa |
| Las Casas | Started slave trade |
| Martin Luther | Protested against Catholic Church |
| Treaty of Tordesillas | Agreement between Spain and Portugal |
| Portugal wanted these items from Africa | Gold and slaves |
| Plantation system | Used Native Americans as slaves |
| French | Fur trade |
| Printing press | Helped Marco Polo's book gain popularity |
| Henry Hudson | Discovered a river and a bay |
| Viking sailor | Leif Eriksson |
| Montezuma | Leader of the Aztecs |
| Francisco Pizarro | Conquered the Incas |
| Three-masted ship | Caravel |
| Potatoes, corn, peanuts | From the Americas |
| Horses, pigs, sheep | From Europe, Africa, or Asia |
| Mexico, Central, and South America | Claimed by Spain |
| Claimed by France | Land in Canada and central U.S. |
| John Cabot | Claimed land in North America for England |
