Age Of Exploration
Across
- 2. Passage / The voyage that brought captured Africans to the West indies, and later to North and South America, to be sold as slaves.
- 4. / An arragement of knotted strings on a cord, used by the Inca to record numerical information.
- 6. Pizzaro / A Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that conquered the Inca Empire.
- 8. / To bring a product into a country to be sold.
- 11. / The Spanish soldiers, explorers, and fortune hunters who took part in the conquest of the Americas in the 16th century.
- 13. / Spanish and Portuguese officials in the new world who were born in Europe and held all the important government positions.
- 14. Trade / The transatlantic trading network along which slaves and other goods were carried between Africa, England, Europe, the West indies, and the colonies in the Americas.
- 16. Henry / A central figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire.
- 18. / A land controlled by another nation.
- 19. Días / A nobleman of the Portuguese royal household and was a Portuguese explorer.
Down
- 1. / A person of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry.
- 3. / The right of Spanish landowners in the Americas to use Native Americans as laborers.
- 5. / To send a product to be sold in another country.
- 7. / An instrument used to determine latitude and longitude.
- 9. / An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver.
- 10. II / The last Aztec empotre in Mexico who was overthrown and killed by Hernando cortes.
- 11. Exchange / The global transfer of plants, animals, and diseases that occurred during the European colonization of the Americas.
- 12. of Tordesillas / A 1494 agreement between Portugal and Spain.
- 15. / Navigation tool used to locate the sun and moon
- 17. Cortes / A Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico.