| A | B |
|---|
| Leif Eriksson | Viking who landed in present day Canada 1000AD |
| Henry the Navigator | Portuguese prince who paid for expeditions and started a navigation school |
| Christopher Columbus | sailor from Genoa, Italy who sailed for Spain; landed in Americas |
| Ferdinand Magellan | Portuguese navigator; circumnavigated the world |
| Columbian Exchange | transfer of plants and animals between Americas and Asia, Africa, and Europe |
| Northwest Passage | path through N. America allowing ships to sail from Atlantic to Pacific |
| Erik the Red explored where? | Greenland |
| Leif Eriksson explored where? | North America; was blown off course, ended up in Vinland |
| Portuguese explorers | Prince Henry, Vasco de Gamma, Bartolomeu Dias |
| Spanish explorers | Columbus, Pizzaro, De Leon, Balboa, Magellan |
| French explorers | Jacques Cartier, Champlain |
| English explorers | Raleigh, and Hudson |
| Dutch (Netherlands) explorers | Hudson |
| Raleigh and Hudson looked for | Northwest passage |
| Spanish explorers's reasons for exploring | Gold, Glory and God |
| Portugal was looking for | an all water route to India |
| Spain was looking for | a faster way to Asia |
