Age of Exploration

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Across
  1. 4. Venetian who in 1497 was the first European explorer of coastal North America
  2. 8. Mapmaker
  3. 9. Spanish explorers that established colonies and looked for gold
  4. 10. Spanish explorer who Conquered Peru and the Incas in 1532
  5. 12. Englishman known for circumnavigating the globe and helped defeat the Spanish Armada
  6. 13. Rounded the southern tip of Africa & opened its eastern shores to Portuguese traders in 1488
  7. 14. Portuguese nobleman; his crew were first to circumnavigate the globe in 1522
  8. 15. Spanish conquistador who conquered the vast Aztec empire in central America
  9. 16. Son of Portugal's king; established navigation school on coast of Portugal
Down
  1. 1. An instrument used for determining positions and movements of heavenly bodies
  2. 2. King of Spain who authorized Columbus's expedition to look for trade routes in the Far East
  3. 3. 1494 treaty in which Spain and Portugal officially agreed to split the new world in half
  4. 5. Spanish explorer; first European in America to see the Pacific Ocean in 1513
  5. 6. Sail around the world
  6. 7. Frenchman best known for exploring the St. Lawrence River and giving Canada its name
  7. 8. Lands controlled by another nation-state
  8. 9. Italian navigator; sponsored by Spanish monarchs to sail west across the Atlantic; explored what became the Americas
  9. 11. Ship that could sail into the wind and close to the shore