The Age of Exploration (32.4 in the TCI Book)

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Across
  1. 1. This was the name of the sea (and general region) where Columbus explored islands on his voyages (pg 409)
  2. 2. Even though it was the Spanish monarchs who gave Columbus money for his voyages, he was not Spanish. He was ___________. (pg 408)
  3. 5. In 1521, Magellan was killed in this country after getting involved in a local conflict between two chiefs. (pg. 410)
  4. 9. Spanish settlers made native people work as slaves on _____________ plantations. (pg. 410).
  5. 12. The name of the man who led a voyage for the Spanish in 1519. He died in a battle before he could finish the expedition, but his 18 surviving crew members (out of the 250 he started with!) became the first people in recorded history to travel around the world. (pg 409)
  6. 13. The word Europeans used as a name for eastern Asia during the Age of Exploration. (pg 408)
  7. 15. The name of the country that sponsored Columbus’s voyage (pg 408)
  8. 18. It took ___________ years to complete the first voyage sailing around the world. (pg. 410)
Down
  1. 1. He was sponsored by the Spanish monarchs to find a westward route to Asia and instead found America. Even though he went back and forth four times and even acted as governor of Hispanolia, he died never realizing that the land he had been going to was not part of Asia. (pg 408-409)
  2. 3. Magellan was hoping to find a ________, or waterway, that would connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and allow ships to sail through to Asia without having to sail around the Americas. The only one he could find was at the very southern tip of South America, but this was important because sailing conditions without this waterway are very dangerous. there is the _______ of Magellan which is named after him. (pg. 409)
  3. 4. This vocab word from Flocabulary means “to sail or travel around something.” During the Age of Exploration, European explorers were eager to ___________ the globe (hint: it starts with a c)
  4. 6. In fifty years, the Taino population dropped from 1-2 million people to less than 500. A huge number of Taino people had died of _____________, overwork, or European diseases. (pg 410)
  5. 7. Between 1518 and the mid 1800s, the Spanish brought ___________ of enslaved Africans to work in their American colonies. (pg 411)
  6. 8. The name for the native islanders who lived on the land Columbus “discovered” (pg. 409)
  7. 10. King ___________ was one of the monarchs that paid for Columbus’s explorations. (pg 408)
  8. 11. Spain paid for Magellan’s voyages but he was not Spanish. He was _____________. (pg. 409)
  9. 14. Queen ___________ was one of the monarchs that paid for Columbus’s explorations. (pg 408)
  10. 16. Now, we have the day off of school for Columbus day. This day is always in the month of ___________ because that is when his lookout first spotted land. (pg 409)
  11. 17. It took ___________ months for Magellan’s crew to sail across the Pacific Ocean (pg. 410)