Chapter One Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. Portuguese man who wanted to explore the western coast of Africa.
  2. 8. Rounded Cape of Good Hope.
  3. 11. First to attempt to find a faster, safer route to Asia.
  4. 13. History of humans in America from around 8,000 B.C. to 3,000 B.C.
  5. 14. Discovered Americas.
  6. 17. Accidentally ended up in Brazil after being blown westward heading for India.
  7. 18. Dominated Atlantic seaboard from Canada to Virginia.
  8. 20. Eleventh century Norse seamen.
  9. 22. Near St. Louis. Population of near 10,000.
  10. 23. First white man to cross Mississippi River.
Down
  1. 1. Rounded Cape of Good Hope and went to India.
  2. 2. Largest empire in Americas.
  3. 4. Language group centered in present day upstate N.Y.
  4. 5. Demanded labor and tribute from natives.
  5. 6. Mexican capital.
  6. 7. Conquered Peru and revealed the wealth of the Incas to the world.
  7. 9. First European to gaze at ocean that separated America and China.
  8. 10. Sophisticated Mexican group that emerged around 800 A.D.
  9. 12. Included Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles.
  10. 14. Land based migrants who came through an unfrozen corridor between two ice sheets
  11. 15. First to circumnavigate the globe.
  12. 16. Powerful Incan ruler.
  13. 19. America's namesake who wrote vivid descriptions of the New World.
  14. 20. Lived in Arctic Circle and hunted seals.
  15. 21. Brings 600 men to Mexico and unknowingly exposed Aztecs to smallpox.