Columbus day

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Across
  1. 2. This Icelandic Viking actually discovered the America’s before Columbus.
  2. 3. In 1642,Columbus sailed the ocean ———-
  3. 4. This term, used to refer to the indigenous people of the Americas, came about because Columbus thought he traveled around the world and landed in India.
  4. 5. In addition to typhus, cholera, measles and influenza, Columbus brought this disease to the natives.
  5. 6. This commonly enjoyed, cheap food was born when tomatoes were brought to the old world as a result of the Colombian exchange.
Down
  1. 1. Columbus —————— the indigenous people and treated them with extreme brutality.
  2. 4. Because the natives hadn’t been exposed to the diseases Columbus brought, they hadn’t developed an —————— to them, and it’s estimated that about 90% of the population was wiped out.