Age of Exploration

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Across
  1. 2. the global exchange of goods, ideas, plants and animals, and disease that began with Columbus's journey to the Americas
  2. 4. form of forced labor where individuals are treated as property and can be bought, sold, and owned as possessions.
  3. 7. the leg of the triangular trade route on which slaves were transported from Africa to the Americas
  4. 9. Which European explorer was the first to discover the Americas?
  5. 10. the right, granted by Spanish monarchs to conquistadors, to demand labor or tribute from Native Americans in a particular area
  6. 11. Which European explorer was the first to sail around the tip of Africa? (the Cape of Good Hope)
  7. 13. Which European explorer found a sea route from Europe to India?
  8. 15. Spanish priest who condemned the encomienda system in the Americas
  9. 16. term that refers to the land discovered after Columbus (North and South America)
  10. 17. Servitude labor system where a person agrees to work for a specific period of time in exchange for something, such as passage to a new country or payment of a debt.
Down
  1. 1. policy by which a nation sought to export more than it imported in order to build its supply of gold and silver
  2. 3. colonial trade routes among Europe and its colonies, the West Indies, and Africa in which goods were exchanged for slaves
  3. 5. to travel completely around the world
  4. 6. Which European explorer was the first to circumnavigate the globe?
  5. 8. This Spanish conquistador conquered the Incan empire
  6. 9. "conqueror" in Spanish; a leader in the Spanish conquests of America, Mexico, and Peru in the sixteenth century
  7. 12. This Spanish conquistador conquered the Aztec empire
  8. 14. term that refers to all known land prior to Columbus (Europe, Asia, Africa)