World History Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. instrument containing a magnetized pointer which shows the direction of magnetic north and bearings from it.
  2. 3. Atlantic slave trade in which millions of enslaved Africans were forcibly transported to the Americas as part of the triangular slave trade
  3. 5. stretched over much of the South American continent, covering parts of modern-day Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru.
  4. 7. an act of slaughtering an animal or person or surrendering a possession as an offering to God or to a divine or supernatural figure.
  5. 8. "Mother Culture" of Meso American known for giant head statues.
  6. 11. comprising Europe, Asia, and Africa; the eastern hemisphere
  7. 12. estate on which crops such as coffee, sugar, and tobacco are cultivated by resident labor
  8. 14. exchange of diseases, ideas, food. crops, and populations between the New World and the Old World
  9. 16. slave trade from africa to the new world
  10. 20. rounded the cape of good hope on the tip of africa
  11. 21. discovered the Strait of Magellan while leading the first expedition to successfully circumnavigate the globe
  12. 22. the Americas and Oceania, especially when regarded collectively as the inhabited landmasses
Down
  1. 2. founded Quebec (1608), one of the oldest cities in what is now Canada, and consolidated French colonies
  2. 4. famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to Australia
  3. 6. known for his 1492 discovery of the New World of the Americas
  4. 9. a technique used in Mesoamerican agriculture which relied on small, rectangular areas of fertile arable land to grow crops on the shallow lake beds in the Valley of Mexico.
  5. 10. Poor nomadic people but their power was based on military conquest. Capital of the Aztec Empire was Tenochtitlan
  6. 13. rounded cape of good hope and sailed from europe to india
  7. 15. centered in one geographical block covering all of Belize and parts of the Mexican states of Tabasco and Chiapas and the western part of Honduras and El Salvador.
  8. 17. began to explore the coast of Africa, most of which was unknown to Europeans
  9. 18. a small, fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship of the 15th–17th centuries.
  10. 19. set sail on his first voyage in 1405, commanding some 27,800 men