Across
- 1. The _______ passage that explorers looked for to get through the Americas to Asia
- 5. A large estate the initially the Spanish used Native Americans to work as slave labor on
- 9. Coast The other name for the West Coast of Africa
- 11. Land in Spanish, this was shouted when the Spanish first saw land in North America
- 12. the economic theory that a nation’s power was based on its wealth
- 16. a vast trading empire called _____ in West Africa.
- 17. The first name of the name that the America's are named after
- 18. The french fur trading settlement that is in modern day Canada
- 19. The first europeans to discover America
- 21. the movement of plants, animals, and diseases that altered life on both sides of the Atlantic
Down
- 2. The hudson bay is name after this explorer, first and last name
- 3. A French word meaning “rebirth,”
- 4. Spanish knight-like explorers
- 6. an instrument that measured the position of stars.
- 7. is a journey to a holy place
- 8. explored the southernmost part of Africa, founded the Cape of ______ Hope
- 10. the real killer of many of the Native Americans during the age of exploration
- 13. The Aztec Emperor that Cortez took advantage of
- 14. The reformation that broke away from the Catholic Church
- 15. The first explorer to circumnavigate the world
- 20. The Cape of _____ Hope next to the southernmost part of Africa
- 22. the man credited for finding the America's in the 1400's
