This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of World History (General) has 18 clues. Answers range from 4 to 19 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
an instrument formerly used to make astronomical measurements.
a small, fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship of the 15th–17th centuries.
a disease caused by a deficiency of vitamin C.
a person who draws or produces maps.
was a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea.
a chronic skin disease that is endemic in tropical America.
one of the three Spanish ships used by Italian explorer Christopher Columbus in his first voyage to the West Indies in 1492
Being Columbus' largest ship
was a Breton explorer who claimed what is now Canada for France.
was a Venetian navigator and explorer whose 1497 discovery of the coast of North America under the commission of Henry VII of England was the first European exploration of the mainland
a nobleman of the Portuguese royal household, was a Portuguese explorer.
an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer.
a Portuguese explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522.
an English sea explorer and navigator during the early 17th century, best known for his explorations of present-day Canada and parts of the northeastern United States.
A line between Spanish and Portuguese territory was first defined by Pope Alexander VI (1493) and was later revised by the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494).
was a Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador.
was an important figure in 15th-century Portuguese politics and in the early days of the Portuguese Empire.
a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula, South Africa.