The Age of Exploration

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  1. 2. Prince ____ ;Founded a school for Explorers
  2. 4. The Americas are named for him
  3. 6. map maker
  4. 8. Sailed for the Spanish; Discovered the “New World”
  5. 9. Spanish explorer who conquered the Incas
  6. 10. Portuguese invented a new ship with triangular sails
  7. 11. Portuguese explorer who was the first to sail around Africa and reach India
  8. 14. Sailed for Spain; Discovered the Mississippi River.
  9. 15. navigation tool that showed the direction a ship was sailing
  10. 16. sailed for Portugal; reached the Cape of Good Hope (southern tip of Africa) in 1488.
  11. 18. navigation tool that showed longitude
  12. 19. “Father of New France”; Founder of Quebec City.
  13. 20. prestige, greatness, and fame.
  14. 21. They conquered Constantinople in 1453 and ruled until 1914.
Down
  1. 1. Sailing for England and the Netherlands, he founded a river and bay that bear his name.
  2. 3. Explorers from England, France, New Netherlands were looking for this waterway through North America
  3. 5. Spanish explorer who conquered the Aztecs
  4. 6. Sailed for France; Founded the St. Lawrence River
  5. 7. knowledge, trade goods, riches and land
  6. 10. Spanish word for conqueror
  7. 12. navigation tool to read the stars (latitude)
  8. 13. The religion Europeans wanted the natives to be.
  9. 17. His crew was the first to circumnavigate the globe
  10. 19. An Italian who was the first to land in North America for the English