Age of Exploration
Across
- 2. a item used to tell the direction you are going using 4 different main directions
- 6. a dutch sailing vessel for maximized interiors
- 8. A tool to help explorers navigate. the paper was from china
- 11. this country was the early leader of exploration and discoveries.
- 12. a popular economic theory during the 17th 18th century.
- 14. measures latitude and direction your moving
- 16. what early europeons thought was the shape of the world
- 17. the vl pope who organizes the popes line of demarcation and the treaty of tordesillas
- 18. a sail for maintaining speed when wind is blowing against the ship
- 19. the country who sets up colonies in North America and India
- 20. a mineral that was sought out in the americas. many europeon explorers also came in search of it
Down
- 1. first name of famous explorer who ventured to america and began mapping the "new land"
- 2. sailors used this to direct them. located in the sky
- 3. the people who sponsored columbus"s exploration
- 4. a peninsula which prevented Europe from expanding south.
- 5. a disease which caused almost 90% of all native americans in what is now the united states, died
- 7. A ship used by portugals that is large and carries cargo.
- 9. the concept of venturing to new places that are unknown
- 10. ship for exploring and has lateen sails on it
- 13. the country that colonized the americas first
- 15. people who have been transferred to the americas to work.