Early European Exploration

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Across
  1. 1. to travel completely around something
  2. 4. Spanish explorer in the Americas (1500s)
  3. 6. religious community where farming was carried out and Native Americans were converted to Christianity
  4. 7. a communal Native American structure; a town in Spanish-ruled lands
  5. 9. a small, fast Portuguese ship used during the age of exploration, usually having three sails
  6. 12. a series of expeditions Europeans made to regain control of Christian holy sites in the Middle East (1000sCE to 1200s)
  7. 13. resistance of an organism to infection and disease
Down
  1. 2. a device that is used to find direction by means of a needle that always points north
  2. 3. a global trade of people, goods, technology, ideas, and diseases that occurred during the 1500s and 1600s
  3. 5. a much-sought sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific across the northern area of the North American continent
  4. 8. a reawakening of culture and intellectual curiosity in Europe from the 1300s to the 1600s
  5. 10. an instrument that uses positions of the stars to plan a course
  6. 11. a fort