| A | B |
|---|
| Reached the Americas in 1492 | Christopher Columbus |
| In 1501 I sailed along the eastern coast of South America. The Americas were named after me. | Americo Vespucci |
| In 1521 I conquered the Aztecs. | Cortes |
| In 1533 I conquered the Incas | Pizarro |
| I explored the American southwest in 1540 | Coronado |
| I reached the Pacific Ocean in 1513 | Balboa |
| The capital of the Aztec empire | Tenochtitlan |
| I was the leader of the Aztecs | Moctezuma |
| The Spanish leader who conquered the Inca | Pizarro |
| The ruler of the Incas | Atahualpa |
| The first European to reach the Mississippi River | Hernando de Soto |
| In 1527 I wanted to end slavery in New Spain | Bartolome de Las Casas |
| granted someone control of Indians on an area of land | encomienda |
| Spanish conqueror | conquistador |
| settlement far from the country that rules it | colony |
| journey made for a special purpose | expedition |
| person who teaches his or her religion to people of different beliefs | missionary |
| Explorers from Scandinavia | Vikings |
| In 982 I traveled to Greenland | Eric the Red |
| spoken tale passed on from one generation to another | saga |
| Age that marked a new beginning in the arts and science and a desire to learn more about the world | Renaissnance |
| I was born in Germany and in 1450 I invented the printing press | Johann Gutenberg |
| I'm a Portugual leader. In the 1420s I took the lead in developing new trade routes to Asia | Prince Henry the Navigator |
| Buying and selling of human beings | slave trade |
| A Storm blew my ship around the tip of Africa (Cape of Good Hope) in 1488. | Bartolomeu Dias |
| In 1498 I sailed around the tip of Africa to reach India | Vasco da Gama |
