Exploration and Colonization

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Across
  1. 2. Silk road overland trade routes linking China and Middle East.
  2. 5. Land grant given by Spanish government.
  3. 7. Spanish explorers who claimed land in the americas for spain.
  4. 8. Large estate farmed by many workers.
  5. 9. Belief that a country's prosperity depended on having gold and silver.
  6. 11. Monotheistic religion founded by prophet Muhammed.
  7. 15. Instrument used to determine latitude while at sea.
  8. 17. Series of wars fought by Christians to the Holy land.
  9. 18. Religious settlement run by catholic priests and friars.
  10. 20. Islamic Holy book
Down
  1. 1. Fort where soldiers lived in Spanish colonies.
  2. 3. Group of people who settle in distant land.
  3. 4. Sail around a round object, such as the world.
  4. 6. Passage A natural waterway through or around North America.
  5. 8. Person from Spain who held position of power.
  6. 10. Person of mixed Spanish and Indian background.
  7. 12. Chidren of Africans and Europeans
  8. 13. Exchange Global exchange from goods and ideas.
  9. 14. Revolutionary ship developed by Muslims enabling people to travel faster.
  10. 16. Descendents of Europeans born in Latin America.
  11. 19. Bringing a product to a country to be sold.