Exploring the Americas

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Across
  1. 2. an instrument that shows the direction of magnetic north
  2. 4. a fort
  3. 9. a Muslim house of worship
  4. 10. a point of land that sticks out into water, much like a peninsula
  5. 12. a large farm
  6. 13. an instrument used to plan a course, using the stars
  7. 15. the use of scientific knowledge for practical purposes
  8. 16. to travel completely around something usually by water
  9. 17. a religious community where farming was carried out and Native Americans were converted to Christianity
  10. 19. a town in the Spanish-ruled lands
  11. 20. a sixteenth-century religious movement rejecting or changing some Roman Catholic teachings and practices and establishing the Protestant churches
  12. 21. a fleet of warships
Down
  1. 1. a sea passage between the Atlantic and and Pacific along the coast of North America
  2. 3. a journey to a holy place
  3. 5. a reawakening of culture and intellectual curiosity in Europe from 1300s to the 1600s
  4. 6. a form of Christianity that was in opposition to the Catholic Church
  5. 7. resistance, such as to disease
  6. 8. settler who pays rent or provides work to a landowner in exchange for the right to use the landowner’s land
  7. 11. Spanish explorer
  8. 14. one of a series of expeditions Europeans made to regain control of Christian holy sites in the Middle East from the A.D. 1000s to the 1200s
  9. 18. related to the culture of ancient Greece and Rome