The Age of Discovery and Exploration

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Across
  1. 5. The central 'trading hub' and one of the biggest cities in the world about 1000 years ago.
  2. 6. European traders looked for new routes to avoid paying them.
  3. 8. A Viking boat used by traders that had a pit in the middle to hold goods safely.
  4. 9. The centre of the trading world before the 1400s and 1500s.
  5. 10. An Empire that began in the 1300s and belonged to a tribe from north-east Turkey.
Down
  1. 1. Is now Istanbul in modern-day Turkey.
  2. 2. A 'commodity' that the Vikings bought and sold everywhere they went.
  3. 3. One of the two most powerful countries in Europe that started the Age of Discovery and Exploration.
  4. 4. The best students.
  5. 7. A precious metal imported from Britain by the Vikings.