AP World Crossoword

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Across
  1. 2. India Company- a joint-stock company established by the English, the most powerful trading company that dominated trade in southern Asia in the 1600s
  2. 5. James Cook- One of the most important Pacific explorers, came across Hawaii, and died in conflict with Hawaiian islanders
  3. 6. Bering- Danish navigator who searched for a northeast passage to Asian ports and was commissioned by Russian officials
  4. 8. Compass- Invention introduced by China, allowed European explorers to navigate maritime routes more easily
  5. 10. Share involving spanish government keeping ⅕ of the silver production to itself and the rest going to profits for private investors
  6. 12. prince of Portugal who conquered part of the moroccan
  7. 14. Henry the Navigator- prince of Portugal who established an observatory and a school of navigation and financially and morally supported navigators
  8. 15. company- Used by English and Dutch, maximized profit while limiting risk
  9. 18. People born in America of Iberian descent
  10. 19. Important instrument used by Greek and Persian astronomers to determine latitude by measuring the angle of the sun.
  11. 22. Spanish conquerors/explorers of the New World
  12. 23. Years War- A global conflict combined with political differences and commercial rivalries
Down
  1. 1. Galleons- Heavily armed and fast ships that brought luxury goods from China to Mexico and brought silver from Mexico to China
  2. 3. Present day Bolivia, the largest silver mine in New Spain
  3. 4. Dias- The first explorer to round the Cape of Good Hope and enter the Indian Ocean
  4. 6. Representatives of the Spanish monarch in Spain’s colonial empire
  5. 7. Magellan- Portuguese navigator who was led the initial expiration fo the Pacific Ocean basin
  6. 9. exchange- The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world after Clumbus’s voyages
  7. 11. Iberian peoples born in Iberia of Iberian parents
  8. 13. Advisory group to viceroys in Spanish America
  9. 16. Columbus- Italian explorer who wanted to sail west to Asia, but ended up discovering the Americas
  10. 17. do mar- A Portuguese sailing strategy that took advantage of the changing winds to return home, instead of going against them
  11. 20. of Tordesillas- Agreement in 1493 that set boundaries of Portuguese and Spanish colonies in the Americas
  12. 21. established in 1602 with advanced nautical technology and powerful military arsenal that helped them dominate the spice trade based in Indonesia