History & Geography New World
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- First people to discover America and who crossed the Bering Sea.
- Native Americans
- He led people to colonize Greenland.
- Eric the Red
- He was the first European to reach America.
- Leif Ericson
- The Portuguese prince who founded a navigation school.
- Henry the Navigator
- This is what Europeans wanted from the Far East and reached Europe by a difficult land and see route in 1400.
- spices
- They were pirates and expert sailors who colonized Iceland and recorded the discovery of America in sagas.
- Vikings
- Means "Before Christ"
- B.C.
- Means "In the year of the Lord and "Anno Domini"
- A.D.
- The first European to sail around the bottom of Africa.
- Bartholomeu Diaz
- The first European to sail to Asia around Africa.
- Vasco da Gama
- The nation that controlled the first all-water route to Asia and set up forts along the African coast to protect trade route.
- Portugal
- Columbus sailed for the country of _____.
- Spain
- Columbus first landed on an island he named______in October of________.
- San Salvador 1492
- He explored between Florida and the Mississippi River.
- Hernando De Soto
- He explored and named Florida, looking for the Fountain of Youth.
- Ponce de Leon
- He led the first voyage around the world.
- Ferdinand Magellan
- First European settlement in the U.S.
- St. Augustine, Florida
- Spanish noblemen who came to America to conquer and get rich.
- conquistadors
- He explored Arizona, New Mexico & Texas.
- Francisco Coronado