Across
- 6. ruler who spent her life fighting against the Portuguese to end the slave trade (3 words)
- 7. this person spent his entire life thinking he had discovered India but had actually discovered the Americas
- 8. a patron who furthered the knowledge of geography and mapmaking and founded the school of navigation in Sagres, Portugal (3 words)
- 10. the ruler who refused to pay the annual tribute to Khan Ahmed of the Golden Horde in 1480 (3 words)
- 11. the fleet that crushed the Ottomans in the Battle of Lepanto (2 words)
- 12. the country who defeated the Spanish Armada and began its rise to become a major naval power
- 13. Zacharias Janssen was credited as the inventor of this
- 16. the first European explorer to sail from Europe to India around Africa (3 words)
- 19. the city taken over by Sultan Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire, thus allowing the expansion of the Ottoman Turks into eastern Europe
- 24. known by the following rhyme: divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived (2 words + Roman #)
- 25. Father of the Reformation
- 26. the Bard of Avon
- 28. the Italian sculptor and architect credited with creating the Baroque style of sculpture
- 32. the countries which the Line of Demarcation separated newly found territories (3 words)
- 33. the country that was taken over by the East India Trading Company
- 34. a period in European history that takes place from the 14th century to the 17th century
- 35. the victors in the naval battle of Djerba
Down
- 1. the country Ferdinand and Isabella united
- 2. the French trader and explorer who claimed Canada for France (2 words)
- 3. patrons of the arts and humanities during the Renaissance
- 4. the first to theorize that the Sun rather than the Earth is at the center of the Universe
- 5. battles fought from 1455–1485 by the Houses of Lancaster and York (4 words)
- 9. one of Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous paintings
- 14. the Spanish conquistador who destroyed the Aztec empire (2 words)
- 15. Pope Gregory XIII decreed that a new and more accurate one of these would take the place of its former
- 17. creator of a projection on a cylindrical map of the world, which allowed the parallels and meridian to be drawn as straight lines and spaced to give accurate ratio to latitude and longitude at any point of the map
- 18. painter famous for his Madonna paintings (2 words)
- 20. the last sultan to rule the Ottoman Empire during its Golden Age (2 words)
- 21. confirmed Copernicus’s research that the Sun, not the Earth, was the center of the Universe
- 22. famous painter of the Sistine Chapel and sculptor of the Pieta and the statue of David
- 23. the empire conquered the Spanish explorer and conquistador Francisco Pizarro
- 27. named the Pacific Ocean (2 words)
- 29. known for his explosive temper and cruelty toward those who opposed him (3 words)
- 30. the Portuguese explorer and mariner who became the first European navigator to round the southern tip of Africa (2 words)
- 31. Akbar the Great was the third and greatest emperor of this empire