European Explorers
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| Island in the northern Atlantic Ocean, largest island on Earth | Greenland
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| Name meaning “Land of Wine,” given by Leif Ericsson to the present-day Canadian province of Newfoundland | Vinland
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| country in southwestern Europe | Portugal
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| Southwestern tip of Africa | Cape of Good Hope
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| Viking explorer who sailed to Iceland in about 965 and Greenland in about 982 | Eric the Red
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| Son of Eric the Red; sailed to North America in about 1000 and explored what is today known as Newfoundland | Leif Ericsson
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| German inventor of the printing press about 1450 | Johann Gutenberg
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| Prince of Portugal who established a school for sailors and navigators | Prince Henry
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| Portuguese explorer who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope | Bartolomeu Dias
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| Portuguese explorer who sailed to India in 1497 | Vasco da Gama
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| long, spoken tale repeated from one generation to the next | saga
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| Period in Europe beginning in about 1350 during which there was a new desire to learn more about the arts, sciences, and other parts of the world | Renaissance
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| Science used by sailors to plot their course and determine their location | navigation
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| buying and selling of human beings | slave trade
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