World History Crossword
Across
- 3. A group of people who practiced an adaptation of Christianity
- 7. An island in the Bahamas that the native people called...
- 8. the exchange of goods, usually over long distances, facilitated through overland and maritime routes, that helped carry culture and religion
- 9. compass important navigational device from China, and diffused during Indian Ocean basin trade
- 14. Hunting and gathering who lived near Cape Town
- 15. Part of the North of Mexico with an abundance of silver
- 18. Cook a captain who lead 3 expeditions to the Pacific and died in a scuffle with indigenous people of Hawaii
- 19. simplified Greek navigational instrument used to determine latitude by measuring the sun's placement
- 20. trade Europeans traded fur with local peoples
- 21. Moroccan port on the west coast of Africa
- 22. Spanish government's reserve of silver, principle revenue the Spanish crown got from American possessions
- 24. An epidemic disease in the Caribbean region
Down
- 1. Full of frozen tundras and dense forests, located in northeastern Eurasia
- 2. One of two important trading cities used by Sunni Ali to dominate the central Niger valley
- 4. Earliest imperial state that ruled the savannahs of West Africa
- 5. island hosting Barvia, an entrepot for VOC
- 6. Dias Portugese explorer entering the Indian Ocean in 1488
- 10. ... fill in the blank. People would do this so that hopefully after four to seven years they could become independent artisans or planters
- 11. settlers harvested this in Virginia & Carolina to sell to Europe
- 12. Fill in the blank. The passage enslaved people had to go over the Atlantic Ocean
- 13. The most important American crop because of its high yield and the fact that it thrived in tropical soils
- 16. One of the two brothers that was part of the ruling Inca house from (1502-1533)
- 17. An island previously named Saint-Domingue
- 23. Smallpox was a ... disease