Across
- 4. A period of great advances in science and technology in the 1500s and 1600s.
- 6. People sent by the Church to spread their religion to new lands.
- 8. A fast and maneuverable ship used by explorers during the Age of Exploration.
- 9. An explorer whose expedition was the first to sail around the world.
- 12. A government idea where power is divided among different branches to prevent any one group from being too powerful.
- 15. An Enlightenment thinker who believed in natural rights and that governments should protect them.
- 17. The movement of people from rural areas to cities, often for work and better opportunities.
- 18. A European country known for early exploration of Africa and Asia.
- 20. The way land was organized in feudal times, with large estates run by lords and worked by peasants.
- 22. The idea that all people are born with rights that cannot be taken away, like life and liberty.
- 23. A scientist who suggested that the Sun, not the Earth, is at the center of the universe.
- 25. Spanish soldiers and explorers who conquered lands in the Americas for Spain.
- 26. A European country that led exploration of the Americas during the 1500s.
Down
- 1. A tool used by sailors to find direction using the Earth’s magnetic field.
- 2. A period in the 1700s when thinkers used reason and science to question traditional beliefs.
- 3. Governments ruled by kings or queens who hold power over their nations.
- 5. The belief that the Earth revolves around the Sun, proposed by Copernicus.
- 7. The explorer who sailed from Spain in 1492 and reached the Americas.
- 10. A Portuguese explorer who was the first European to sail around Africa to reach India.
- 11. A famous Renaissance artist and inventor, known for painting the Mona Lisa.
- 13. A medieval system where land was owned by kings and nobles, and peasants worked the land in exchange for protection.
- 14. A European country that became powerful through trade and exploration in the 1600s.
- 16. A Renaissance sculptor and painter, famous for the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
- 19. A time of rebirth in art, learning, and science in Europe from the 1300s to the 1600s.
- 21. An instrument that helped sailors figure out their location by measuring stars.
- 23. The main Christian church in Europe during the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
- 24. A belief in the potential and value of humans, focusing on education and personal achievement.
