The Age of Exploration

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Across
  1. 4. A global exchange of people, goods, technology, ideas, and even diseases began
  2. 7. Ship that used triangular sails instead of square sails and rudders instead of oars
  3. 9. Merchants start going to peasants to produce goods instead of guilds
  4. 10. A device used to measure the distance between the horizon and the sun or moon
  5. 13. Mathematical formulas that sailors used to efficiently calculate the time
  6. 15. Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca Empire
  7. 16. King of Portugal in 1419 who set up a research center for navigation
  8. 17. created maps of the world in antiquity that were rediscovered in the 1400's
  9. 18. The idea that a country gains power by building up its supply of gold and silver
Down
  1. 1. Reached the southern tip of Africa in 1488
  2. 2. Epic naval battle where small but agile British ships defeated large ships of the Spanish Armada
  3. 3. French explorer sent to find a direct route to Asia through the Americas
  4. 5. Italian explorer who discovered the Americas in an effort to find a direct route to Asia
  5. 6. A business that people can invest in by buying a share of the company
  6. 8. Spanish explorer whose crew were the first people to successfully circumnavigate the globe
  7. 11. published an atlas in 1154 that showed parts of the world known by the Arab empire
  8. 12. Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztec empire
  9. 14. Rounded the tip of South Africa and reached India in 1497
  10. 17. A magnetic device that showed where North was