The Explorers - Definitions Quiz

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Across
  1. 1. Dutch East India Company
  2. 4. Travel to unknown places
  3. 5. People who live in Holland speak this language
  4. 6. A stone cross with the Portuguese Coat of Arms on it
  5. 7. A large ship
  6. 10. The science that studies the planets and the stars
  7. 12. Money collected by governments for using something
  8. 15. A time in history in which many new ideas were developed
  9. 17. An instrument containing a magnetized pointer which shows the direction of magnetic north and bearings from it
  10. 18. A country in Europe where Dutch people live
  11. 19. To change
Down
  1. 2. Eager to investigate and learn more
  2. 3. The disease that sailors often got and died from as a result of not eating fruit and vegetable for a long time
  3. 7. A weapon that is stronger and bigger than a bow and arrow
  4. 8. Long journeys
  5. 9. An explosive substance in the form of powder
  6. 11. point A time when important changes start
  7. 13. Instruments specially built for looking at far away objects
  8. 14. To gain money by selling something for more than it was bought
  9. 16. system The sun and all the planets that revolve around it