| A | B |
|---|
| Columbus | First European to discover Carribean Islands |
| Vikings | first Europeans to discover North America |
| Vikings homeland | Scandinavia |
| Year that Columbus came to North America | 1492 |
| Year that Vikings came to North America | 1001 |
| Leif Eriksson | First European man to step foot in North America |
| Eric the Red (L. Eriksson) | Discovered and named Greenland |
| Marco Polo | travelled to China and wrote a book about his exploration |
| Saga | adventure story about brave deeds of long ago people |
| Vinland | "land of the vines" ~ North America |
| Continents on the Vinland Map | Asia, Europe, Africa, North America |
| Continents not drawn on the Vinland Map | Antarctica, Australia, South America |
| knoll | small round hill |
| encounter | or meeting |
| exploration | searching the unknown |
| In 1492 the Tainos greeted him | Christopher Columbus |
| cartographers | makers of maps |
| first European to make a globe | Martin Behaim |
| Portuguese who started navigation school | Patrick Henry |
| Portuguese who found a sea route to Asia | Vasco da Gama |
