Across
- 3. who the first Spanish landing on the east coast of present-day Florida in 1513. According to legend was not looking only for gold. He also hoped to find the legendary fountain of youth.
- 5. conquered the Inca Empire
- 6. to travel completely around something, usually by water
- 7. conquered the Aztec Empire
- 10. a sea passage between the Atlantic and the Pacific along the north coast of North America
- 12. French explorer sailed up the St. Lawrence River, hoping it would lead to the Pacific.
- 14. a religious community where farming was carried out and Native Americans were converted to Christianity
- 16. Spanish explorer
- 18. a fort
- 19. one of a series of expeditions Europeans made to regain control of Christian holy sites in the Middle East from the A.D. 1000s to the 1200s
- 20. leader of the crew that were the first people known to sail around, the world.
- 21. a Muslim house of worship
Down
- 1. spent months looking for an outlet of a bay for the Pacific Ocean His crew became impatient and rebelled. They set him, his son, and a few sailors adrift in a small boat, never to be seen again.
- 2. a reawakening of culture and intellectual curiosity in Europe from the 1300s to the 1600s
- 4. a journey to a holy place
- 8. a sixteenth-century religious movement rejecting or changing some Roman Catholic teachings and practices and establishing the Protestant churches
- 9. a town in the Spanish-ruled lands
- 11. settler who pays rent or provides work to a landowner in exchange for the right to use the landowner's land
- 13. a fleet of warships
- 15. an instrument used to plan a course, using the stars
- 17. a point of land that sticks out into water, much like a peninsula