Exploration Crossword

an Italian merchant, explorer, and writer who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and 1295.
a legendary Christian patriarch, presbyter (elder) and king who was popular in European chronicles and tradition from the 12th through the 17th centuries.
an instrument used for navigation and orientation that shows direction relative to the geographic cardinal directions.
a geographic coordinate that specifies the north–south position of a point on the Earth's surface.
a central figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire and in the 15th-century European maritime discoveries and maritime expansion.
a nobleman of the Portuguese royal household, was a Portuguese explorer. He sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, the first European to do so, setting up the route from Europe to Asia later on.
a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea.
an Italian explorer and colonizer who completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean that opened the New World for conquest and permanent European colonization of the Americas.
a line drawn along a meridian in the Atlantic Ocean as part of the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494 to divide new lands claimed by Portugal from those of Spain.
a Portuguese explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522.
the complete navigation around an entire island, continent, or astronomical body.
hundreds of men who left Spain to seek fame and fortune in America.
a Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador.
a Spanish conquistador and explorer who defeated the Aztecs and claimed Mexico for Spain.
the ninth tlatoani or ruler of Tenochtitlán, reigning from 1502 to 1520.
an explorer, soldier and conquistador best known for conquering the Incas and executing their leader, Atahuapla.
13th and last emperor of the Inca.
a 16th-century Spanish colonist who acted as a historian and social reformer before becoming a Dominican friar.
a Spanish explorer and conquistador who was involved in expeditions in Nicaragua and the Yucatan Peninsula.
a Spanish conquistador and explorer who led a large expedition from Mexico to present-day Kansas through parts of the southwestern United States between 1540 and 1542.