Down
| 3. | the country that finally agreed to help Columbus make his voyage; Columbus set sail from here August 3, 1492 |
| 5. | Columbus' destination; a land Columbus believed was rich with gold and spices (2 words) |
| 6. | female ruler of Spain in 1492 (2 words) |
| 7. | small, fast sailing ships that were used by the Spanish and Portuguese in the fifteenth century |
| 10. | a world that no one in Europe knew about--America (2 words) |
| 11. | a member of a ship's crew |
| 12. | on October 12, 1492, the ships landed on this in the Bahamas |
| 13. | Columbus traveled to the New World on this small, fast, Spanish sailing ship (2 words) |
| 15. | the ___ made by Christopher Columbus changed the history of the world. |
| 17. | people who were born and lived in the New World before explorers ever came |
| 18. | one of the three small, fast, Spanish sailing ships that Columbus sailed to the New World |
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| 2. | a navigator, mapmaker, and explorer who dreamed of sailing west on the Sea of Darkness to reach the lands in the Far East; lands believed to be rich with gold and spices |
| 4. | male ruler of Spain in 1492 (2 words) |
| 8. | one of the three small, fast, Spanish sailing ships that Columbus sailed to the New World |
| 9. | Columbus sailed west across the ___ Atlantic Ocean |
| 14. | a piece of canvas that catches the wind |
| 16. | the island where Columbus first landed. He claimed it for Spain and called it this. (2 words) |
| 19. | the uncharted Sea of Darkness (2 words) |
| 20. | the continent Columbus reached on his search for a new route to the Far East |
| 21. | Columbus found primitive people living in these (2 words) |
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