First Contact Crossword

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Across
  1. 4. Giovanni Da Verrazono was from _______
  2. 6. What type of food was introduced to Hispaniola?
  3. 7. Country that forced the Aboriginal people to work in mines and a lot of them were killed
  4. 8. King _______ was the king of Spain
  5. 9. Hudson's last journey lead to a bay surrounding Newfoundland and Quebec, later knonw as _______
  6. 10. First name of explorer who sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492
  7. 11. Italian explorer hired by the English Monarchs
  8. 13. Area where Giovanna Caboto landed and found millions of fish
  9. 16. England tried to to find the North West passage to find an easier and quicker way to _______
  10. 17. Month that Christopher Columbus landed in North America
  11. 18. Member of the Portuguese royal family
Down
  1. 1. Christopher _______ was hoping to find a route to India
  2. 2. Columbus wanted to find India to trade for _______
  3. 3. King Ferdinand was married to queen _______
  4. 5. Prince Henry created a school for ship captains and mariners to help them learn about _______
  5. 8. Christopher Columbus called the _______ Indians because he thought he landed in India
  6. 9. Who's crew discovered the Norway Archipelago in which there were hundreds of whales?
  7. 12. Country that had two ships. One of them docked in Africa and the other in India
  8. 14. European country trying to find the Northwest Passage
  9. 15. A new and improved navigational tool