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Across
- 2. people of Spanish blood born in America
- 4. the foods eaten by a desperate population chestnuts, bark, dandelions and grass in attempts to escape starvation
- 6. forced migration of millions of Africans to work in servitude during the eighteenth century. By the peak decade of the 1780s, shipments of black men and women averaged about 80,000 per year
- 9. the transformation of large number of small peasant farmers into landless rural wage earners
- 10. the offspring of Spanish men and native American women
- 14. term used to describe the 18th century rural industry.
- 15. the result of the English desire to increase both military power and private wealth, required that goods imported from Europe into England and Scotland be carried on British-owned ships with British crews or on ships of the country producing the article etc
Down
- 1. based on the writings of Adam Smith, it is the belief in free trade and competition. Smith argued that the invisible hand of free competition would benefit all individuals, rich and poor
- 3. a system of village farming developed by peasants where the land was divided into several large fields which were in turn cut into strips. There were no divided fences or hedges and it was farmed as a community
- 5. the idea to enclose individual share of the pastures as a way of farming more effectively
- 6. the period from the mid-seventeenth century on in Europe during which great agricultural progress was made and the fallow was gradually eliminated
- 7. the open meadows maintained by villages for public use
- 8. a system which allowed a planter or rancher to keep his workers/slaves in perpetual debt bondage by periodically advancing food, shelter, and a little money; it is a form of serfdom
- 11. domestic industry, a stage of rural industrial development with wage workers and hand tools that necessarily preceded the emergence of large-scale factory industry
- 12. system of economic regulations aimed at increasing the power of the state
- 13. the system by which farmers would rotate the types of crops grown in each field as to not deplete the soil of its natural resources