Age of Exploration

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Across
  1. 1. a mapmaker
  2. 4. de Gama, He built the Dias' route completed an all water expedition to India in 1498
  3. 5. Descendents of Spanish-born but born in Latin America; resented inferior social political economic status.
  4. 9. Dynasty, A major dynasty that ruled China from the mid-fourteenth to the mid-seventeenth century. It was marked by a great expansion of Chinese commerce into East Africa the Middle East and Southeast Asia
  5. 11. Empire, An empire established in China by Manchus who overthrew the Ming Empire in 1644. At various times they also controlled Manchuria Mongolia Turkestan and Tibet. The last emperor of this dynasty was overthrown in 1911 by nationalists.
  6. 15. to sail around the world
  7. 16. People of African and European descent
  8. 17. of Tordesillas, Signed by Spain and Portugal dividing the territories of the New World. Spain received the bulk of territory in the Americas compensating Portugal with titles to lands in Africa and Asia.
  9. 18. the Navigator, A Portuguese royal how was responsible for financing early expeditions to find gold.
  10. 19. of Demarcation, This was the line drawn by Alexander VI that gave Portugal most of Brazil and Spain the rest of South America
Down
  1. 2. Trade, A trade route that exchanged goods between the West Indies the American colonies and West Africa
  2. 3. Dutch settlers in South Africa
  3. 6. A grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indian inhabitants of an area.
  4. 7. The capital of the Aztec Empire
  5. 8. A Spanish conqueror
  6. 10. Passage, A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies
  7. 12. a person of mixed Spanish and Native American heritage
  8. 13. A tax on imported goods
  9. 14. Exchange, The name given by historians to the interchange of new crops germs and people between Europe and the New World following 1492
  10. 16. An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought