Exploration Crossword

2. da Gama – First explorer to sail from Europe around Africa to India.
3. Empire – Powerful civilization in Mexico conquered by Cortés in the early 1500s.
8. Vespucci – Explorer whose name was used for North and South America.
9. Exchange – Movement of plants, animals, people, and diseases between the Old World and the New World.
10. – Native peoples of the American Southwest known for their adobe houses.
12. Pizarro – Conquistador who defeated the Inca Empire in South America.
13. System – Spanish system that gave colonists control over Native labor in exchange for “protection.”
14. Cortés – Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztec Empire in Mexico.

1. – Spanish soldiers and explorers who conquered lands in the Americas.
3. – Navigation tool used by sailors to find their location using the stars.
4. Columbus – Italian explorer who sailed for Spain and reached the Americas in 1492.
5. Ponce de León – Spanish explorer who searched for the Fountain of Youth in Florida.
6. of Tordesillas – Agreement that divided newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal.
7. – Deadly disease brought by Europeans that killed millions of Native Americans.
11. Empire – Large South American empire conquered by Pizarro; located in the Andes Mountains.
12. Magellan – Led the first voyage to sail completely around the world.