17.1 European Exploration

2. Portuguese Prince Henry the ___ began exploring sea routes along the African coast (385)
3. Important spice trade port conquered by Portugal (386)
6. Port in India established by the Portuguese (386)
8. Conquered the Inca Empire after it was ravaged by smallpox (388)
10. First permanent French settlement in the Americas (389)
11. Winds blowing south and west in the North Atlantic (385)
13. Most powerful empire in Mexico before the Spanish (387)
15. The Dutch founded the West ___ Company to try to compete with Portugal and Spain (388)
16. Explorer sailing for Spain who believed he could sail west from Europe to Asia (386)
18. Explorer who charted the New England coast in 1497 (386)
20. Most important indigenous allies of the Spanish (387)
22. The treaty that created a boundary between Portuguese and Spanish zones of exploration (386)
24. Cartographer and writer for whom America is named (387)
25. Thing responsible for most of the deaths in the Spanish conquests of Mexico and Peru (388)

1. The ___ Bay Colony was one of the first areas settled by English colonists (389)
4. Leaders of Spanish conquests in the Americas (387)
5. Conquistador who led the overthrow of Tenochtitlan (387)
7. First explorer to lead an expedition around the world, though he himself did not complete the journey (386)
9. A triangular sail of Arab design that allow ships to sail against the wind (385)
12. Name given to the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam when the English took it over in 1664 (388)
14. Portuguese explorer who sailed across the Indian Ocean in 1498 (385)
17. South American land claimed by Pedro Cabral for Portugal (387)
19. A new faster ship developed by the Portuguese (385)
21. Europeans were motivated by “Gold, glory, and ___” (385)
23. Portuguese explorer who reached the Cape of Good Hope in 1488 (385)