Early Explorers

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Across
  1. 3. Vasco da Gama discovered a sea route around this continent to India
  2. 5. Period of time when the Europeans explored much of the world
  3. 8. Where Columbus thought he landed when he found the Americas
  4. 10. Country of Sir Edmund Hillary
  5. 11. vasco da
  6. 14. Spanish soldiers and explorers who conquered much of Central and South America
  7. 15. Road that Marco Polo used to travel to China
  8. 16. Country that eventually paid for Columbus' trip across the Atlantic Ocean
  9. 17. Cortez conquered the Aztec Empire
Down
  1. 1. The first to sail around the world
  2. 2. what the Europeans brought with them that killed many Native Americans
  3. 4. President who asked Lewis and Clark to explore the west
  4. 6. Chinese explorer visited India and Africa
  5. 7. Mongol leader of China that Marco Polo met: Kublai
  6. 9. This explorer sailed the ocean blue in 1492
  7. 12. Amundsen was the first man to lead an expedition to the South Pole
  8. 13. What Juan Ponce de Leon was searching for