Exploration Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. middle leg of the triangular trade route that brought captured Africans to the Americas to serve as slaves
  2. 4. to send abroad for trade or sale
  3. 6. conquistador who defeated the Inca
  4. 7. large farm or estate
  5. 8. Italian sailor who sailed for the English and is believed to have landed in Newfoundland, Canada
  6. 9. belief that some people are inferior because of their race
  7. 11. English explorer who sailed for the Dutch and landed at the coast of present-day New York
  8. 16. treaty in which Spain and Portugal agreed to divide lands of the Western hemisphere between them in 1494
  9. 19. practice or one person being owned by another
  10. 22. conquerors
  11. 23. people or nations involved in a treaty
  12. 24. France first permanent French colony in North America
  13. 25. person sent by the Church to convert Native Americans to Christianity
Down
  1. 1. Italian sailor who explored what is now the Americas
  2. 3. grant of Native American slave labor
  3. 5. Italian navigator who looked for a faster water route to Asia
  4. 10. Spaniard who fought for Native American rights
  5. 12. conquistador who brought the Aztecs to ruin
  6. 13. transfer of plants, animals and diseases between the Western and Eastern hemispheres
  7. 14. large farm that raises cash crops
  8. 15. French sailor who sailed up the St. Lawrence River to present-day Montreal
  9. 17. founder of fur-trading post at Quebec
  10. 18. large fleet of ships sent to invade England and restore Catholicism
  11. 20. runaway or fugitive slave
  12. 21. sailing ship