Exploration Crossword

3. – Explorer whose name was used for North and South America.
4. – Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztec Empire in Mexico.
5. – Conquistador who defeated the Inca Empire in South America.
8. Navigation tool used by sailors to find their location using the stars.
9. – Italian explorer who sailed for Spain and reached the Americas in 1492.
10. – Agreement that divided newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal.
12. de León – Spanish explorer who searched for the Fountain of Youth in Florida.
14. – Spanish system that gave colonists control over Native labor in exchange for “protection.”
15. Native peoples of the American Southwest known for their adobe houses.
16. Spanish soldiers and explorers who conquered lands in the Americas.

1. – Powerful civilization in Mexico conquered by Cortés in the early 1500s.
2. – Led the first voyage to sail completely around the world.
6. – Large South American empire conquered by Pizarro; located in the Andes Mountains.
7. Gama – First explorer to sail from Europe around Africa to India.
11. Deadly disease brought by Europeans that killed millions of Native Americans.
13. – Movement of plants, animals, people, and diseases between the Old World and the New World.