Across
- 4. the part of the Atlantic Ocean between the west coast of Africa and the West Indies
- 5. an Italian navigator and explorer. His 1497 voyage to the coast of North America under the commission of Henry VII of England is the earliest-known European exploration of coastal North America
- 7. the spanish queen who payed for columbus's trip to the americas
- 9. an explorer who is considered the first person to circumnavigate
- 10. the country or district settled or colonized
- 12. to become quiet, less active, or less violent; abate
- 16. a Portuguese mariner and explorer. In 1488, he became the first European navigator to round the southern tip of Africa.
- 17. the aztec monarch who met the force of herman cortes's army
Down
- 1. a person born in the West Indies or Spanish America but of European, usually Spanish, ancestry.
- 2. the establishment of a colony or new settlement.
- 3. a small spanish or portuguese sailing vessel of the Middle Ages
- 6. Spanish conquistador (c. 1485-1547)best known for conquering the Aztecs and claiming Mexico on behalf of Spain.
- 8. 13th and last emperor of the Inca
- 11. a person of mixed racial or ethnic ancestry, especially, in Latin America, of mixed American Indian and European descent or, in the Philippines, of mixed native and foreign descent.
- 13. a member of a Nahuatl-speaking state in central Mexico that was conquered by Cortés in 1521.
- 14. one of the spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century
- 15. a portuguese sea captin who reached south america