Age of Exploration

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 5. The guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place (10)
  2. 6. An act of traveling by water (6)
  3. 7. The state capital of Ohio (8)
  4. 10. Aromatic substances of vegetable origin used as a preservative (plural) (6)
  5. 12. Huge body of salt water (5)
  6. 13. A hinged vertical airfoil mounted at the tail of an aircraft and used to make horizontal course (6)
  7. 15. A person who is owned by someone (plural) (6)

Down

  1. 1. A triangular fore-and-aft sail used especially in the Mediterranean (6)
  2. 2. European country known for flamenco and paella (5)
  3. 3. A republic in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula (8)
  4. 4. A quarter of the circumference of a circle (8)
  5. 7. An area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet" (7)
  6. 8. A leader of the American Revolution and a famous orator who spoke out against British rule of (5)
  7. 9. A region of eastern South Africa on the Indian Ocean (5)
  8. 11. A condition caused by deficiency of ascorbic acid (6)
  9. 14. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (4)