US history Chp. 1 Flashcards
The story of what has happened in the life of a person or nation
History
The study of the earth’s surface
Geography
A large mass of land
Continent
The largest bodies of water
Oceans
Name given to Europe after the Americas were discovered
Old World
The name given to the Americas
New World
Italian Sailor who discovered America in 1492
Christopher Columbus
Italian merchant who visited China and described its riches to Europe
Marco Polo
The three ships used on Columbus’s first voyage
Niña, Pinta, and Santa Maria
King and queen of Spain who financed Columbus’s voyages (gave money and resources to him)
Ferdinand and Isabella
Name Columbus gave the people of the New World because he thought he was in India
Indians
People from Scandinavia who sailed the seas and settled in Greenland and Iceland
Vikings
Viking who was the first European to visit America
Lief Ericson
English explorer who claimed land in North America for England in 1497
John Cabot
Explorer who was the first to call America a New World
Amerigo Vespucci