Age of Exploration

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Across
  1. 6. The richest country in the world during most of the 1500s, due to the wealth from its New World colonies.
  2. 9. The continent early Portuguese exploration centered on the coast of.
  3. 10. The name of the short lived Viking settlement in North America.
  4. 11. The explorer who sailed the Ocean blue in 1492.
  5. 12. (Three Words) Famous Portuguese leader who created a school for navigational sailing.
  6. 13. French explorer who founded Quebec.
  7. 16. (Two Words) The largest of Columbus’s three ships
  8. 17. Explorer who discovered both a major river in New York for the Dutch and a major bay in Canada for the English, both named after him.
  9. 18. The improved ships for ocean travel developed by the Portuguese
  10. 19. An English "lost colony" in what would become North Carolina.
  11. 20. (Two Words) Explorer son of Erik the Red, who was the actual first European to reach America
  12. 21. The very early explorer for England, whose expeditions were in the same decade as Columbus’s.
Down
  1. 1. The conquistador who conquered the Inca Empire.
  2. 2. Term for a Spanish explorer and conqueror.
  3. 3. (Two Words) The traditional land route between Europe and East Asia
  4. 4. The first name of an actually fairly unimportant explorer, which weirdly became the basis of the word America.
  5. 5. The place in Asia the Portuguese were trying to get to by going around Africa.
  6. 7. (Two Words) French Explorer who explored the Mississippi and named Louisiana.
  7. 8. (Two Words) The island Columbus reached and named in the Bahamas.
  8. 11. The act of sailing around the world, as Magellan’s expedition first did.
  9. 14. Where both John Cabot and Christopher Columbus are from.
  10. 15. The empire conquered by Hernán Cortés.