Age of Exploration

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Across
  1. 2. to sail around the world
  2. 4. Trade routes that connected China, India, and the Middle East. Traded goods and helped to spread culture.
  3. 6. Explorer who led the first expedition to sail completely around the world, reached the Philippines and circumnavigated the world
  4. 7. organized a navigation school for sailors, cartographers, and shipbuilders
  5. 10. A massive exchange of plants, livestock, disease, culture and people between the Old World the New World
  6. 12. An Italian navigator funded by Spain to find the Far East; given credit for discovering the "New World”
  7. 15. an economic idea that a nation's wealth was enhanced by having gold and silver, balanced trade, and overseas colonies.
  8. 17. Trade network by which African slaves were captured and traded/sold for goods in Africa, the Americas, and Europe.
  9. 18. Spanish conqueror
  10. 19. A person sent on a religious mission, esp. one sent to promote Christianity in a foreign country.
Down
  1. 1. A small, highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic.
  2. 3. Treaty of ____________; a 1494 agreement between Portugal and Spain that divided their New World land claims.
  3. 5. A tool used by navigators in the 1400s and 1500s to determine a ships position by charting the position of the stars
  4. 8. Conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico
  5. 9. a forced labor system in which a piece of land was given to Spanish colonists and included American Indians to serve as labor
  6. 11. large Chinese sailing ships used for long voyages
  7. 12. A navigational instrument that shows direction (north, south, east, west) in a frame of reference that is stationary relative to the surface of the Earth.
  8. 13. Portuguese explorer who reached the southern tip of Africa; Cape of Good Hope
  9. 14. Conquistador who sough gold and justified actions though the spread of Christianity; conquered Incas
  10. 16. Portuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India, opening an important commercial sea route.