Age of Exploration Crossword Review

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Across
  1. 3. a series of trade routes connecting the East with the West.
  2. 5. Name of Spanish Conquistador who conquered the Incas.
  3. 7. Portuguese explorer who became the first European to sail across the Pacific Ocean.
  4. 8. Only domesticated animal of the Incas.
  5. 11. Gold, God, and _________.
  6. 12. Aztec capital city, located in modern-day Mexico City.
  7. 14. Time period of renewed interest in the learning of Ancient Greece & Rome.
  8. 15. The Columbian ________ refers to the swapping of diseases, ideas, and crops between the Old World and New World.
  9. 16. Number of voyages Columbus undertook to the New World.
  10. 17. Portuguese explorer Vasca da ____ was the first European explorer to reach India by sea.
Down
  1. 1. The _____ system was a labor system set up by the Spanish that had natives work the land for the Spanish.
  2. 2. Where Marco Polo was from.
  3. 3. Disease the Spanish brought to the New World that wiped out the indigenous population.
  4. 4. One reason that Europeans had a stronger immunity to disease was their use of ________ animals.
  5. 6. First name of Mongol leader who Marco Polo met in China.
  6. 9. European name for northern China
  7. 10. Aztec leader that confronted Cortes.
  8. 13. Columbus was from what country?