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