Across
- 3. a country ruled by a king or queen
- 6. Italian merchant who journeyed to China and saw inventions like paper, printing press, and gunpowder
- 7. Several trade routes connecting China and Europe. Merchants traveled the routes to China to buy silk, spices, ad other goods
- 8. The use of scientific knowledge and tools to solve problems
- 10. movement of plants, animals, and people between Eastern and Western Hemispheres
- 11. a Christian settlement and religious community
- 12. A plantation or large ranch owned by Spanish colonists
- 16. His crew was the first to circumnavigate the world
- 18. Group of people that Christopher Columbus encountered
- 20. a journey taken by a group for a definite purpose
- 21. a person who makes money by buying and selling goods
- 22. a rebelling against a ruler
Down
- 1. money left over after all expenses have been paid
- 2. to sail all the way around something
- 4. the invention Johaness Gutenberg came up with during the Renaissance
- 5. A settlement ruled by a distant country
- 9. Spanish explorer who sailed West looking for a route to Asia but landed in the West Indies
- 10. A group of travelers journeying together
- 11. Mali's great king who made Timbuktu a center of art and learning and trade
- 13. Territories and groups of people controlled by one government
- 14. Spanish explorer who took over the Aztec empire
- 15. American Spain's colony where settlers started towns, built mines, missions, and haciendas
- 17. An instrument once used by sailors for navigation
- 19. An outbreak of disease that makes many people sick at once
