Explorers and Navigators to the New World

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Across
  1. 5. A strip of land that connects two larger land masses
  2. 6. He discovers land in the Western Hemisphere
  3. 8. He claims the eastern coast of North America for England
  4. 9. The explorer that conquered Mexico
  5. 11. The land bridge that was likely used to migrate from Asia to the Americas
  6. 12. He claimed all the islands off the coast of North America for Spain
  7. 13. People that were settled in North America before European navigators arrived
Down
  1. 1. He claimed land in upper North America (now known as Canada) for France
  2. 2. A (written)record of what man has done with the time God has given him
  3. 3. The ocean you must cross to get from Europe to the Americas
  4. 4. The land named after Amerigo Vespucci
  5. 7. The place that was claimed by Christopher Columbus for Spain
  6. 10. The explorer that first called the Americas the "New World"