The Age of Exploration

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Across
  1. 1. The first European to cross the Indian Ocean
  2. 4. who financed overseas explorations
  3. 7. First person to require captian of his ships to keep lods, or diaries, of their journeys
  4. 8. Country that decided to find a more direct route to Asia by sailing directly west from Europe to go around the globe, rather than going around Africa like Portugal did
  5. 10. Last name of the person who led the first commercial (for profit) sailing expedition into the Atlantic Ocean
Down
  1. 2. focusing on collecting and using material goods or products
  2. 3. Portugese sailers tried to find routes to sail around ___ to India and China
  3. 5. Portugal, France, Spain, and England had this type of coastline
  4. 6. colony controlled by Portugal until 1999
  5. 9. the first two countries to become wealthy from exploration: ___ and Spain