Across
- 3. allowed sailors to navigate with stars and tell the general direction they were going
- 7. name given to the Western Hemisphere
- 10. Exchange. the transfer of goods between the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe
- 11. it means "map-making"
- 15. founder of the first navigation school to make Portugal a leader in world exploration
- 17. the theory that countries should focus on exporting goods and owning colonies
- 18. someone who owed more money to creditors than they had
- 19. called the natives he encountered "Indians" because he thought he landed in the East Indies
- 20. North and South America are named after him
Down
- 1. Portuguese explorer who sailed for Spain and was the first to circumnavigate the world
- 2. this disease caused major wipeout of Native Americans because they didn't have natural resistance
- 4. a journey or voyage taken by a group of people with a purpose
- 5. land route from Europe to China and India
- 6. people who agreed to work for a set period of time to pay for their passage to the New World
- 8. the study of geography and movement as it pertains to finding your geographic position and planning a route to a location
- 9. sturdy, fast ship that used triangular sails and steering rudders
- 12. a religious group from England who thought the Anglican church should purify itself from its rituals
- 13. English nobility who received land grants in Virginia from the King of England
- 14. to travel completely around the world
- 16. the first permanent English settlement in the New World
- 21. an area that is controlled by or belongs to a country and is usually far from it