Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. demarcated line between Columbus discoveries and the West AFrican coast
  2. 3. Europena explorere from Italy who sailed in 1492. Accidentally found Carribean islands
  3. 5. Portugese noble who led an expedition in 1497 around the South tip of AFrica into the Indian Ocean
  4. 8. descendants of North African Berbers
  5. 10. Part of Indonesian islands
  6. 12. Christian campaign to retake Iberia from Muslims
  7. 13. worldwide exchange of plants/animals/microbes. Brought over by the Colombian exchanges
  8. 14. maritime voyages arranged by Zheng He
  9. 15. eunuch/advisor/political fixer to Emporer Yongle led Ming voyages
Down
  1. 1. native to Brazil; became a staple food in Africa
  2. 4. staple food crop indigenous to America
  3. 6. port city in Southwest India
  4. 7. disease from Africa that is transmitted by mosquittos. It spread to the Americas via the Colombian exchanges
  5. 9. Portugese explorer who found a route to the Moluccas from Europe and South America
  6. 11. transfer of plants/ animals/ and microbes to Eurasia, Africa, and the Americas