Unit 5: Exploration Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. He mistakenly landed in the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India
  2. 4. The exchange between the americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages
  3. 5. A powerful Aztec monarch who fell to Spanish conquistadors
  4. 6. An ancient civiliztaion that was located in present'-day mexico
  5. 8. Capital of the Aztec empire
  6. 9. A Mesoamerican civilization of central Americas and south Mexico (1200-1521AD)
  7. 11. Spanish explorer that arrived in the Americas in 1502 joined Balboa in Panama and successfully attacked the Inca empire
  8. 13. The trading of slaves from Africa and the Americas
  9. 14. to sail around the world
Down
  1. 1. A Spanish explore who became the first European to the Pacific Ocean in 1510 while exploring Panama
  2. 3. The center of their empire was in present-day Peru
  3. 7. A Spanish conqueror of the Americas.
  4. 10. a small fast, fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship of the 15th-17th centuries
  5. 12. French explorer who explored the St.Lawrence river and laid the claim to the region for France (1491-1557)