Chapter 1 U.S History Section 5

The Italian explorer who explored South America and concluded that it could not be part of Asia and for who America was named after was?

Amerigo Vespucci

An Italian navigator who sailed west across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a sea route to Asia and who instead landed in the Americas in 1492.

Christopher Columbus

A series of interactions between the Native American and European cultures and environments.

Columbian Exchange

Christopher Columbus and his three ships reached the Caribbean and landed in the Bahamas, probably on what is today?

San Salvador Island

The place in the Bahamas where Christopher Columbus most likely landed on his first voyage across the Atlantic in 1492 was called?

San Salvador Island

When Columbus first landed in the Americas, he thought he was in?

The Indies

Who became the first European to reach the Pacific coast of America in 1513?

Vasco de Balboa

A group of people from Scandinavia.

Vikings

To sail around the world.

circumnavigate

An imaginary north-to-south line running down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean that granted Spain control of everything west of it and Portugal control of everything east was known as the?

line of demarcation

Native Americans taught the Europeans local farming methods and introduced them to new?

technologies