1. Explorers

2. 1. An explorer who “sailed the ocean blue in 1492” for Spain.

3. Christopher Columbus

4. 2. The three ships of Christopher Columbus.

5. Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria

6. 3. The first permanent English colony in the New World.

7. Jamestown

8. 4. A Spanish explorer who discovered and named the Pacific Ocean in 1513.

9. Vasco Nunez de Balboa

10. 5. This animal was first brought to America by the Spanish explorer Hernando Cortez.

11. Horse

12. 6. The Portuguese explorer who was the first to sail around the southern tip of Africa while searching for a water route to the East.

13. Vasco da Gama

14. 7. This Italian scrawled his name across a map showing the New World and the newly discovered land was named for him.

15. Amerigo Vespucci