World History

1. was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America
4. They made a Calendar
6. a small, fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship
10. trade peolpe
12. an act of slaughtering an animal or person or surrendering a possession as an offering to God or to a divine or supernatural figure.
15. Mother Culture of meso america know for big heads
18. He is best known for having planned and led the 1519 Spanish expedition to the East Indies across the Pacific Ocean to open a maritime trade route
19. the widespread transfer of plants, animals, precious metals, commodities, culture, human populations, technology, diseases
21. 1st Count of Vidigueira, was a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea.
22. an instrument containing a magnetized pointer which shows the direction of magnetic north and bearings from it.

2. an Italian explorer and navigator who completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean
3. a French colonist, navigator, cartographer, draftsman, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler.
5. who led military campaigns in North Africa and directed voyages that spurred the growth of Portugal's colonial empire.
7. an estate on which crops such as coffee, sugar, and tobacco are cultivated by resident labor.
8. he became the first European navigator to round the southern tip of Africa
9. China's early Ming dynasty
11. new thing's
13. a Mesoamerican culture that flourished in central Mexico in the post-classic period
14. is a technique used in Mesoamerican agriculture which relied on small, rectangular areas of fertile arable land to grow crops on
16. the stage of the Atlantic slave trade in which millions of enslaved Africans
17. a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the British Royal Navy, famous for his three voyage
20. old things