caravel - A small fast ship, astrolabe - An instrument that helps sailors navigate using the stars, Christopher Columbus - Italian explorer who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506), Age of Exploration - 15th and 16th centuries when Europeans searched for new sources of wealth and for easier trade routes to China and India, compass - a tool that shows the direction of magnetic north, competition - trying to get or win something others are also trying to get or win, Reasons for exploration - Glory, God, Gold, Ferdinand Magellan - Portuguese explorer who found a sea route to the Spice Island by sailing around the American continent. His crew was the first to circumnavigate the world., circumnavigate - to sail completely around the world, Leif Ericson - Viking who was the first European to visit America, Main groups of Native Americans - Eastern Woodlands, Plains, Great Basin, totem poles - wooden poles made by Pacific Northwestern Native Americans, wampum - beads used as money by the Eastern Woodland Native Americans, pueblos - houses made of clay, used by the Southwestern Native Americans, environment - a person's physical surroundings,

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