Early Explorers

An _____________ is a person who travels looking for new land and discoveries.

A __________ is the course you take to get somewhere.

Long ago, spices were valuable. People used spices to keep food from spoiling. Spain hired __________, an explorer born in Italy, to sail to China to search for spices.

Christopher Columbus began his journey to China in ____.

Columbus did not find ______, but he did land on an island off the coast of present day Florida instead.

When he first saw the people living there, he called them ______.

He called them Indians because he thought he had reached the _______________, near southern China.

Columbus had three ships, ___________

_______ was another explorer who sailed from Spain.

_________ were named in Amerigo Vespucci's honor.