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Age Of Exploration Cross Word Puzzle

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Across
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Built on Dias' route, completed an all water expedition to India in 1498
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First permanent settlement in Virginia
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Set said in pursuit of Columbus' goal of reaching the Spice Islands; his ship was first to circumnavigate the globe.
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Improved navigation; mapping
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Pointed to the magnetic north, making it easier to determine direction
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One of the main reasons many explores came over to the New World
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Confirmed Portugal's right to the eastern route to the Indies as well as to any undiscovered lands in the east; entitled Portugal to Brazil (granted rights to African slave trade)
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Explored northeast coast of North America
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"New World" in Latin
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The word that was found on a tree from the Lost Colony of Roanoke
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Small, lighter, and faster ships ideal for ocean travel
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Led Jesuit missionaries to Asia (where by 1550 thousands of natives had been converted to Christianity)
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Spanish adventurers who led conquests in the Americas
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Believed a western track would be shorter than paths the Portuguese were taking;reached the Bahamas, believing he had reached the "Indies" somewhere west of India
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Explored Brazil; 1st European to realized he had discovered a new continent in the New World; America named after him
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A trade where the colonies export cheaper raw material to their home country and then the home country refines it and sells it back to the colonies
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Powerful landlords of great estates; military service class
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Conquered the Aztecs in Mesoamerica
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"the Terrible" defeated the Mongols and took over Muscovy
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Pointed to the magnetic north, making it easier to determine direction