Age of Exploration Key Words

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Across
  1. 5. - spanish conquerers who defeated native empires in Central and South America
  2. 6. - the age of ____________ is the period in 15th and 16th centuries when European countries explored or searched for other countries
  3. 7. - large estates in South and Central America for sugar and cotton production
  4. 8. - treaty between Spain and Portugal where they divided newly discovered lands between them. Treaty of ____________
  5. 10. - group of countries ruled by another country
Down
  1. 1. - remembering historically significant events or people
  2. 2. - ship used by Portuguese and Spanish to explore coasts of Africa and America
  3. 3. - where people or a country take control of another people or country by military force
  4. 4. - where a country takes over another country, spreads its culture and settles there
  5. 9. - deliberate killing of large groups of people