Age of Exploration
Across
- 2. _______ the Navigator, Prince of Portugal
- 4. Land that juts out into the water
- 8. Sea faring nation that wanted to be the first to find a sea route to Asia
- 11. Overtook Constantinople in 1453
- 13. Islands and Mainlands found in and around the Indian Ocean
- 14. A voyage taken for a particular purpose
- 15. Spains war to reconquer the Iberian peninsula from the Moors
- 17. Overland trade networks from Europe to Asia
- 18. Polo
- 21. Ancient astronomical instrument
- 22. Pope who determined the Line of Demarcation in 1493
- 23. Navigation which uses objects in the sky
- 25. Sailed for Henry VII of England
- 26. A technique for determining a ship's location
- 28. Points to the magnetic poles
Down
- 1. A boundary
- 3. First European to circumnavigate the globe
- 5. To take advantage of
- 6. His first voyage marks the beginning of the Age of Exploration in 1492
- 7. Cabral was the first European to land here
- 9. "Evil Spirit"
- 10. A sailing ship with lateen sails
- 12. Mariner
- 13. The name Columbus gave the native peoples he discovered
- 16. To go around
- 19. First European nation to attempt to map and colonize the coast of Africa
- 20. An Arab or Muslim
- 24. Mutiny
- 27. Vasco da Gama was the first to reach _________ by sea