Age of exploration

2. the first settlement of the Virginia Colony, founded in 1607
4. used to refer to the trade in the 18th and 19th centuries that involved shipping goods from Britain to West Africa to be exchanged for slaves, these slaves being shipped to the West Indies and exchanged for sugar, rum, and other commodities which were in turn shipped back to Britain.
5. the widespread transfer of plants, animals, precious metals, commodities, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, etc. between America, Africa, and Europe.
6. 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. an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish-Based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs
13. a person who journeys to a sacred place for a religious reason
14. The transportation of slaves from Africa to North America
15. a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.
16. A Portuguese mariner and explorer

1. A war with the British against the French, with many Native American tribes helping both sides
3. the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.
7. A conqueror from Mexico or Peru in the 16th century
9. a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea
10. divided the new world into Spanish and Portuguese spheres of influence
11. a central figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire and in the 15th-century European maritime discoveries and maritime expansion
12. an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.