Exploration & Americas

2. The science and art of making maps
3. Staple crop that formed the agricultural foundation of American civilizations.
4. trade of goods, ideas, and disease between the New and Old World
5. Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca Empire
11. Portuguese prince who opened the very first school of navigation in Europe
12. Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztec Empire
15. the King of the Aztecs at the time of their conquest by the Spanish
18. Money paid by one country to another in return for protection
19. The region extending from modern Mexico through central America where the Aztec and Maya civilizations were located
20. First explorer to circumnavigate the globe
22. the Inca Emperor at the time of their conquest by the Spanish
23. The identification with, and devotion to, the interests of one nation
24. English monarch who ruled during the Anglo-Spanish War and England's rise to the status of a global power

1. English explorer and privateer who was instrumental in the rise to power of England over Spain on the high seas
3. An economic policy by which nations try to gather wealth by controlling trade and establishing colonies
6. A solid earthen roadway built across water or low ground
7. Explorer who discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India.
8. A bridge held up by cables anchored at each end
9. An economic system in which the government controls a country's economy.
10. An economy in which prices are determined by the buying and selling decisions of individuals in the marketplace
13. A small, highly maneuverable ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the voyages of exploration
14. The first European to reach India by sea sailing around the tip of Africa.
16. floating farming islands made by the Aztec
17. A farming technique in which vegetation is cut away and burned to clear land for growing crops
21. A territory, often very large, under the political and economic control of another country