Age of Exploration Study Guide

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Across
  1. 5. caused the destruction of over 90% of the Native American population
  2. 6. Spanish explorer and the governor of Puerto Rico
  3. 7. Cherokee tribe that hunted and were farmers of corn, beans, & pumpkins
  4. 10. named and claimed Canada for France
  5. 12. This Spanish explorer led the first known European expedition to Florida.
  6. 13. 7 cities of gold explorer
  7. 14. Leader of the Vikings and first Europeans to reach North America.
  8. 17. Economic system where a country exports more than they import.
  9. 18. a disease that inflicted the Indigenous American groups that left sores
  10. 21. A widespread exchange of exotic and lucrative goods from the New World to the Old World
  11. 22. Wrote book on travels in the Americas
Down
  1. 1. They came to Central and North America in search of gold.
  2. 2. explorer conquered the Aztecs in 1519
  3. 3. the first Europeans in North America
  4. 4. claimed modern-day New York for the Dutch in 1609
  5. 8. Great Plain tribes lived in tipis because they were
  6. 9. indigenous group in North America lived in village bands that included the Algonquin and Iroquois nations
  7. 11. Spanish system that used Native Americans to work for free labor
  8. 15. American Indian group of the Southwest built complex multi-story adobe villages
  9. 16. These people are of mixed Spanish-Indian ancestry.
  10. 19. Spanish explorer who crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513
  11. 20. Term for the Western Hemisphere and areas “discovered” by European explorers.