Across
- 5. cabot / a Venetian navigator and explorer
- 6. de las casas / Bartolomé de las Casas was a 16th-century Spanish colonist who acted as a historian and social reformer before becoming a Dominican friar.
- 8. / denoting or relating to an area of land almost surrounded by water or projecting out into a body of water.
- 12. /a narrow passage of water connecting two seas or two large areas of water.
- 14. /sail or travel all the way around (something, especially the world).
- 19. passage / he European and northern Atlantic point of view
- 20. /a grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indian inhabitants of an area.
- 21. /a union or association formed for mutual benefit, especially between countries or organizations.
Down
- 1. marquette /French missionary who accompanied Louis Joliet in exploring the upper Mississippi River valley
- 2. nunez de balboa /Vasco Núñez de Balboa was a Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador
- 3. /emperor of the Aztecs at the time of the Spanish conquest.
- 4. /belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.
- 7. / an important assignment carried out for political, religious, or commercial purposes, typically involving travel.
- 9. magellan / was a Portuguese explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies
- 10. /one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.
- 11. de bois /a woodsman or trader of French origin.
- 13. / an estate on which crops such as coffee, sugar, and tobacco are cultivated by resident labor.
- 15. Columbus / An Italian explorer responsible for the European discovery of America in 1492.
- 16. Hudson / English navigator who discovered the Hudson River
- 17. cortes /Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico
- 18. de champlain /Samuel de Champlain, known as "The Father of New France", was a French navigator, cartographer, draftsman, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler.