Vocabulary Crossword- Unit 2: New Empires in the Americas

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Across
  1. 6. King of Portugal who established a school of navigation.
  2. 7. the transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Americas and Europe, Asia, and Africa.
  3. 8. Emperor of Mexico’s Aztec Empire.
  4. 9. Norwegian explorer and first European to explore the Americas.
  5. 12. Portuguese captain of a Spanish fleet who sought a western route to Asia via the “Southern Ocean.”
  6. 14. a large Spanish fleet defeated by England in 1588.
  7. 16. boundary between Spanish and Portuguese territories in the New World.
  8. 17. Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca Empire.
  9. 18. an official document that gives a person the right to establish a colony.
Down
  1. 1. reformers who protested certain practices of the Catholic Church.
  2. 2. to travel all the way around the globe.
  3. 3. Italian explorer who was convinced that he could reach Asia by sailing westward across the Atlantic Ocean.
  4. 4. Spanish conquistador who conquered Mexico and brought about the fall of the Aztec Empire.
  5. 5. a system that gave Spanish settlers the right to tax local Indians or to demand labor in exchange for protecting them and converting them to Christianity.
  6. 10. a large farm that usually specialized in growing one kind of crop for profit.
  7. 11. French navigator who made three voyages to Canada for France.
  8. 13. a Spanish soldier and explorer who led military expeditions in the Americas and captured land for Spain.
  9. 15. a device that enabled navigators to learn their ship’s location by charting the position of the stars.