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Name _____________________________
Date ___________________
  Columbus Day
Word List
America
Atlantic Ocean
Columbus
East Indies
King Ferdinand
New World
Nina
Pinta
Queen Isabella
San Salvador
Santa Maria
Spain
caravel
crew member
dead reckoning navigation
discovery
island
sail
sailor
ship
uncharted
 
 


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1.   the men needed to do the work on a ship

   crew member   
2.   a member of a ship's crew

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3.   the ___ made by Christopher Columbus changed the history of the world.

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4.   the country that finally agreed to help Columbus make his voyage; Columbus set sail from here August 3, 1492

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5.   the island where Columbus first landed. He claimed it for Spain and called it this.

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6.   a navigator, mapmaker, and explorer who dreamed of sailing west on the Sea of Darkness to reach the lands in the Far East; lands believed to be rich with gold and spices

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7.   the uncharted Sea of Darkness

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8.   one of the three small, fast, Spanish sailing ships that Columbus sailed to the New World

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9.   Columbus sailed west across the ___ Atlantic Ocean

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10.   Columbus' destination; a land Columbus believed was rich with gold and spices

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11.   on October 12, 1492, the ships landed on this in the Bahamas

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12.   one of the three small, fast, Spanish sailing ships that Columbus sailed to the New World

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13.   a world that no one in Europe knew about--America

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14.   Columbus traveled to the New World on this small, fast, Spanish sailing ship

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15.   small, fast sailing ships that were used by the Spanish and Portuguese in the fifteenth century

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16.   this was the method used by Columbus and most other sailors of his era.

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17.   a large boat

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18.   female ruler of Spain in 1492

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19.   a piece of canvas that catches the wind

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20.   male ruler of Spain in 1492

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21.   the continent Columbus reached on his search for a new route to the Far East

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22.   people who were born and lived in the New World before explorers ever came

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