Exploration and Colonization

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Across
  1. 3. allowed sailors to navigate with stars and tell the general direction they were going
  2. 7. name given to the Western Hemisphere
  3. 10. Exchange. the transfer of goods between the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe
  4. 11. it means "map-making"
  5. 15. founder of the first navigation school to make Portugal a leader in world exploration
  6. 17. the theory that countries should focus on exporting goods and owning colonies
  7. 18. someone who owed more money to creditors than they had
  8. 19. called the natives he encountered "Indians" because he thought he landed in the East Indies
  9. 20. North and South America are named after him
Down
  1. 1. Portuguese explorer who sailed for Spain and was the first to circumnavigate the world
  2. 2. this disease caused major wipeout of Native Americans because they didn't have natural resistance
  3. 4. a journey or voyage taken by a group of people with a purpose
  4. 5. land route from Europe to China and India
  5. 6. people who agreed to work for a set period of time to pay for their passage to the New World
  6. 8. the study of geography and movement as it pertains to finding your geographic position and planning a route to a location
  7. 9. sturdy, fast ship that used triangular sails and steering rudders
  8. 12. a religious group from England who thought the Anglican church should purify itself from its rituals
  9. 13. English nobility who received land grants in Virginia from the King of England
  10. 14. to travel completely around the world
  11. 16. the first permanent English settlement in the New World
  12. 21. an area that is controlled by or belongs to a country and is usually far from it