Social studies 2
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- Italian explorer who landed in present-day Newfoundland but told people he had found Cathay.
- Caboto
- name of the first European settlement in the Americas
- Vinland
- European who proved it was possible to reach Asia by sailing west from Europe
- Magellan
- local name for the Island which Columbus first landed
- Guanahani
- Italian explorer who figured out that Columbus had not reached Asia
- Vespucci
- first european to make a globe
- Martin Behaim
- portuguese explorer who was the first European to sail around the southern tip of Africa
- Dias
- leader of the first Europeans to visit the americans
- Eriksson
- Portuguese explorer who found a sea route to Asia by sailing around Africa
- Da Gamma
- portuguese leader who started a school for navigators
- Prince Henry
- European whose descriptions of the riches of China made traders want to go to Asia
- Marco Polo