Age of exploration

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Across
  1. 4. Hudson / English navigator who discovered the Hudson River
  2. 5. de bois /a woodsman or trader of French origin.
  3. 8. / an estate on which crops such as coffee, sugar, and tobacco are cultivated by resident labor.
  4. 9. /a union or association formed for mutual benefit, especially between countries or organizations.
  5. 10. nunez de balboa /Vasco Núñez de Balboa was a Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador
  6. 13. /emperor of the Aztecs at the time of the Spanish conquest.
  7. 15. /one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.
  8. 17. magellan / was a Portuguese explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies
  9. 18. /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.
  10. 20. / an important assignment carried out for political, religious, or commercial purposes, typically involving travel.
  11. 21. passage / he European and northern Atlantic point of view
Down
  1. 1. /sail or travel all the way around (something, especially the world).
  2. 2. /belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.
  3. 3. de champlain /Samuel de Champlain, known as "The Father of New France", was a French navigator, cartographer, draftsman, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler.
  4. 6. de las casas / Bartolomé de las Casas was a 16th-century Spanish colonist who acted as a historian and social reformer before becoming a Dominican friar.
  5. 7. cabot / a Venetian navigator and explorer
  6. 11. /a narrow passage of water connecting two seas or two large areas of water.
  7. 12. / denoting or relating to an area of land almost surrounded by water or projecting out into a body of water.
  8. 14. cortes /Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico
  9. 16. marquette /French missionary who accompanied Louis Joliet in exploring the upper Mississippi River valley
  10. 19. Christopher Columbus / An Italian explorer responsible for the European discovery of America in 1492.