| A | B |
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| Vikings | The first Europeans known to have visited the Americas. |
| Leif Eriksson | The leader of the first Europeans to visit the Americas. |
| Vinland | The name of the first European settlement in the Americas. |
| Martin Behaim | The first European to make a globe. |
| Marco Polo | The European whose descriptions of the riches of China made traders want to go to Asia. |
| Constantinople | The city, captured by the Turks, that closed off trade routes between Europe and Asia. |
| Prince Henry | The Portuguese leader who started a school for navigators. |
| Bartholomeu Dias | The Portuguese explorer who was the first European to sail around the Southern tip of Africa. |
| Vasco da Gama | The Portuguese explorer who found a sea route to Asia by sailing around Africa. |
| Guanahani | The local name for the island on which Columbus first landed. |
| Giovanni Caboto | The Italian explorer who landed in present-day Newfoundland but told people he had found Cathay. |
| Amerigo Vespucci | The Italian explorer who figured out that Columbus had not reached Asia. |
| Pacific Ocean | The body of water that was reached by Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa. |
| Ferdinand Magellan | The European who proved it was possible to reach Asia by sailing west from Europe. |
