| A | B |
|---|
| cartographer | mapmaker |
| astrolabe | an instrument to determine sailors latitude at sea. |
| caravel | larger and better ships which combined the square sails of European ships with Arab lateen or triangular sails. |
| circumnavigate | to sail around the world |
| sepoy | Indian troops |
| British raj | Indian word for British rule |
| Christopher Columbus | Sailed for Spain. Landed in the Caribbean, off what was probably the Bahamas |
| Amerigo Vespucci | Italian mapmaker, labeled the region Columbus found "America" |
| Ferdinand Magellan | First to circumnavigate the world |
| John Cabot | discovered Newfoundland and claimed it for England |
| Jacques Cartier | Explored the St. Lawrence River for France |
