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Unit 3- The Age of Exploration
| Questions |
Answers |
| These people were the first Europeans to reach North America |
Vikings |
| A person who makes a living from buying and selling goods. |
merchant |
| What traders wanted to get from China and India. |
spices |
| This was used by sailors to tell which direction they were going. |
compass |
| This is on the back end of a ship to help steer the ship |
rudder |
| This explorer thought he had made it to India in 1492, but instead he was on an island in North America |
Columbus |
| This explorer tried to find a Northwest passage and later had a river and a big bay named after him. |
Hudson |
