Vocabulary Practice

2. The exchange of plants, animals, foods, people, and diseases between Europe, Africa, and the Americas after 1492.
5. When a country takes control of another land, people, and resources.
9. The forced movement of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas to work without pay.
10. A large empire in South America known for roads, farming on mountains, and strong government control.

1. The half of the Earth that includes North America, South America, Central America, and the Caribbean.
3. A time (1400s–1600s) when European countries explored new lands to find trade routes, wealth, and resources.
4. Important things people or civilizations created, like build cities, art, or developing science and technology.
6. A powerful civilization in present-day Mexico known for farming, trade, and building large cities like Tenochtitlan.
7. The first people who lived in a place before others arrived
8. A civilization in Central America known for math, astronomy, writing, and building pyramids.