Early European Exploration

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Across
  1. 3. Christopher Columbus sailed on behalf of this country
  2. 5. This person landed in Hispaniola in 1492 thinking he had made it to Asia
  3. 6. The first European explorer to land in North America
  4. 7. The German geographer who named the "New World" after Amerigo Vespucci
  5. 8. The Chinese emperor at the time of Marco Polo's travels to Asia
Down
  1. 1. A series of religious wars in which Christians tried to take the Middle East from Muslim control
  2. 2. The place where Marco Polo was born
  3. 4. Amerigo Vespucci primarily explored the coast of this continent