Across
- 4. founder and first ruler of the Empire of Brazil
- 5. measured Brazil’s diameter and length. He used the Portuguese saints to dictate the days of the week along the coast under King Manuel I alongside Pedro in 1500.
- 7. Patriarch of the Independence.
- 9. military commander, led a separatist movement
- 10. revolutionary combatant, fought in Brazil and Italy
Down
- 1. enabled the capitalization of colonial expansion through the Indies and Spice Islands throughout the southern cape of Africa’s peninsula
- 2. leader of a failed conspiracy against the Portuguese, executed by hanging followed by quartering
- 3. lost Brazil when his son Pedro declared independence
- 6. navigator who was the second European to discover Brazil on routes drawn by Da Gama in April 22, 1500.
- 8. military combatant, war veteran, "father of the Navy"