Explorer Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. a route through America to continue to Asia.
  2. 4. unexplored land.
  3. 7. is the biological and cultural exchange of animals, plants, human populations, diseases, and food between the Americas, Europe and Asia after the voyage of Columbus and other explorers.
  4. 12. when a crew rebels against its leader.
  5. 14. drawing the shape of land and water on a flat surface.
  6. 16. a narrow waterway.
  7. 17. plot a course at sea
  8. 19. is a line drawn by the Pope at roughly 45 W longitude. It gave all unclaimed lands west of the line to Spain and all unclaimed lands east of the line to Portugal.
  9. 22. sailors and warriors from Scandinavia.
  10. 24. Road trade routes connecting Europe and Asia.
  11. 25. land controlled by a country.
  12. 26. lands ruled by one leader.
  13. 28. a story that is not true.
  14. 29. a large, flat area of high land.
Down
  1. 1. — a Spanish conqueror.
  2. 3. a small community in a new place.
  3. 5. to say something belongs to you.
  4. 6. someone who buys and sells goods.
  5. 8. a powerful empire in South America.
  6. 9. a planned journey.
  7. 10. a long journey by sea.
  8. 11. travel all the way around the world.
  9. 13. a person who plans a voyage
  10. 15. the icy area around the North Pole.
  11. 18. taking control of land.
  12. 20. a settlement ruled by a distant country.
  13. 21. region of the Atlantic Ocean with calms, sudden storms, and light unpredictable winds.
  14. 23. a disease from the lack of vitamin C that sailors got on long voyages
  15. 27. a path or way to travel.