Age of Exploration

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Across
  1. 3. the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas
  2. 5. a government in power
  3. 9. a set of principles that dominated economic thought in the seventeenth century; it held that the prosperity of a nation depended on a large supply of gold and silver
  4. 12. a settlement of people living in a new territory, linked with the parent country by trade and direct government control
  5. 13. bring in from abroad
  6. 16. a system of labor the Spanish used in the Americas where Spanish landowners had the right to use Native Americans as laborers
  7. 17. a large agricultural estate
  8. 18. a small, fast, maneuverable ship that had a large cargo hold and usually three masts with lateen sails
  9. 19. instrument used to calculate positions of celestial bodies
  10. 20. a leader in the Spanish conquest of America
Down
  1. 1. the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group
  2. 2. compass based on an indicator (as a magnetic needle) that points to the magnetic north
  3. 4. to send a product or service for sale to another country
  4. 6. a person born on the Iberian Peninsula; typically, a Spanish or Portuguese official who resided temporarily in Latin America for political and economic gain and then returned to Europe
  5. 7. beyond or across the sea
  6. 8. a person of mixed European and native American Indian descent
  7. 10. a person of mixed African and European descent
  8. 11. a person of European descent born in Latin America and living there permanently
  9. 14. work performed by people that provides the goods or services in an economy
  10. 15. a journey to some distant place