Age of Exploration

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Across
  1. 3. Becomes a prominent route to spread Christianity
  2. 7. New shipping vessel with triangular sails
  3. 8. Came out of humanism; encourages competition between the different European countries
  4. 9. Exchange The global transfer of plants, animals, and diseases from the Americas to Africa and Europe after Columbus
  5. 10. A grant of land made by Spain to a settler in the Americans
  6. 13. and Indian War A conflict between Britain and France for control of territory in NA
  7. 14. A land controlled by a distant nation
  8. 17. Measured degrees
  9. 19. A group of people who founded the colony of Plymouth
  10. 20. Passage The voyage that brought captured Africans to the West Indies
  11. 21. A religious group that were the most active with colonization
Down
  1. 1. A group of people who sought freedom from religious persecution in England
  2. 2. The Spanish soldiers who took part in the conquest of the Americas
  3. 4. trade The transatlantic trading network
  4. 5. Encouraged a new spirit of adventure and curiosity
  5. 6. Sea Was mainly controlled by the Italians who bought goods from the Muslims
  6. 8. What the Europeans needed to fuel the rising banking system
  7. 11. The economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government should encourage by means of protectionism
  8. 12. East India Trading Co A company founded by the Dutch to establish and direct trade throughout Asia
  9. 15. Who wanted to bypass the Muslims' trade routes and find a quicker route to the East, and desired spices?
  10. 16. A person of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry
  11. 17. Slave trade The buying, transporting, and selling of Africans for work in the Americas
  12. 18. Passage The voyage that brought captured Africans to the West Indies