Lesson 5 Vocabulary pp. 65-75

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Across
  1. 3. On October 12, 1492, Columbus stepped on land and claimed for Spain an island he named __________.
  2. 5. This French explorer followed a route along the St. Lawrence River.
  3. 7. He searched for the Seven Cities of Gold.
  4. 8. Passage the supposed route across the northern part of North America that Europeans were looking for but never found.
  5. 9. a community ruled- by another country, not by its own people.
  6. 10. He explored the Mississippi River.
  7. 12. a Spanish explorer who came to the Americas in the 1500s and claimed large areas of land for Spain.
Down
  1. 1. Juan Ponce de Leon sailed to Florida in search of this.
  2. 2. Disease a sickness that can pass quickly from one person to another as germs are spread by touch or through the air.
  3. 4. His first voyage was in 1609 and he sailed up a river now named for him.
  4. 6. He marched to the Aztec capital. After a week, he took the Aztec emperor Montezuma II prisoner.
  5. 11. Southeast Asia, including India, Indonesia and Malaysia.