Age of Exploration

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Across
  1. 2. someone who journeys in foreign lands
  2. 4. the epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europesilk a fabric made from the fine threads produced by certain insect larvae
  3. 9. a journey undertake by a group of people
  4. 10. found america
  5. 14. a system of increasing wealth through colonization and trade
  6. 15. hot red peppers; usually long and thin; some very small
  7. 16. silverware eating utensils
  8. 18. oil oil from olive trees
  9. 19. an economic system based on private ownership of assets
  10. 20. country of southeastern Asia that extends southward along the Isthmus of Kra to the Malay Peninsula
  11. 22. archipelago in the southwestern Pacific including some 7000 islands
Down
  1. 1. wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump
  2. 2. epidemic that is geographically widespread; occurring throughout a region or even throughout the world
  3. 3. Indicates magnetic north
  4. 5. a shade of white the color of bleached bones
  5. 6. a republic in western South America; achieved
  6. 7. Oldest spice known to man, and in the past one of the most valuable
  7. 8. 3rd largest Ocean
  8. 10. a group of organisms of the same type living together
  9. 11. a deep yellow color
  10. 12. the first to sail from Europe to India by rounding Africa's Cape of Good Hope
  11. 13. a geographical area in eastern Africa
  12. 17. travel undertake in order to discover new resources
  13. 21. second largest continent