Across
- 2. First explorer to discover “new land” west of Europe and Africa (2 Words)
- 3. discovered the southern tip of Africa and proved ships could reach Asia by ship
- 8. was given credit as the first explorer to circumnavigate the world (2 Words)
- 10. people sent to other lands to convert people to Christianity
- 11. Spanish Conquerors in the new world
- 15. Portuguese king who build a school for navigation (2 words)
- 17. a device used to measure the angle of the sun and stars above the horizon
- 18. swollen bleeding gums due to lack of vitamin C
- 21. Conquered Peru for the Spanish (2 Words)
Down
- 1. the exchange of plants, animals, etc between the "New World" and "Old World"
- 4. Spanish explorer who conquered the Aztec Empire in Mexico (2 Words)
- 5. people born in Spain that moved to the the New World
- 6. First successful British colony in North America
- 7. the land given to Spanish Rulers
- 9. the journey that brought slaves from Africa to the Americas
- 12. a tax on goods brought in from another place
- 13. a belief that a nation’s real wealth was measured in its gold and silver treasure
- 14. Aztec king kidnapped by the Spanish and eventually killed
- 15. English people who wanted to practice their version of Christianity freely, settled in Plymouth Rock.
- 16. a mapmaker
- 19. disease perhaps the greatest weapon of the conquistadors (2 Words)
- 20. God, Gold and . . .
- 22. sail around the world