Across
- 3. what we call the side of the world that Christopher Columbus discovered
- 4. This is what Christopher Columbus was looking for when travelling to the new world - a new way of getting to India or China (hint it starts with an R)
- 6. Europeans bought this from the Africans
- 8. Spanish conquistador that colonized Mexico
- 9. Disease that killed millions in Europe
- 11. This is where Christopher Columbus thought he landed
- 12. some people think the Earth is not round but
- 14. the first explorer to discover the Americas who was from Spain
- 17. This country colonized Brazil (hint - it starts with a P)
Down
- 1. This is a natural resource that is very expensive that the Spanish were searching for
- 2. This was the first president of the United States
- 5. Ancient civilization of natives that lived in modern-day Peru.
- 7. this is where the Europeans were getting slaves from
- 10. Ancient civilization in the New World that practiced human sacrifice and are in modern day Mexico
- 13. a crop that the Europeans discovered in the Americas that is used in modern-day cigarettes - it made them a lot of money
- 15. This is one of the countries that Columbus was looking for a trade route to
- 16. this is what we call the side of the world that was already discovered like Europe and Asia
