The Age of Discovery
Across
- 4. A long-distance route along which commercial goods are transported.
- 6. An instrument containing a magnetised pointer which shows the direction of magnetic north and bearings from it.
- 8. A person whose job it is to work as a member of the crew of a commercial or naval ship or boat.
- 9. A country near Spain where many discoverer's set sail from.
Down
- 1. The process of accurately ascertaining one's position and planning and following a route.
- 2. Food made with flour, water and salt that could keep for months at a time.
- 3. A small, fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship of the 15th–17th centuries.
- 5. A widely held but irrational belief in supernatural influences, especially as leading to good or bad luck, or a practice based on such a belief.
- 7. A disease caused by a deficiency of vitamin C, characterised by swollen bleeding gums and the opening of previously healed wounds.
- 8. A person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them.