age of exploration

2. a nationalist economic policy that is designed to maximize the exports and minimize the imports for an economy.
4. an agreement between the Kingdoms of Spain and Portugal that defined where each could explore and claim lands
5. a group of people from one country who build a settlement in another territory, or land.
10. the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War
13. a trade between European and African slavers who victimized millions of African men, women, and children.
15. person who is out to conquer new territory
16. a system of transatlantic trade in the 16th century between Europe, Africa, and the Americas.

1. a person who goes on a long journey often with a religious or moral purpose, and especially to a foreign land
3. the stage of the Atlantic slave trade in which millions of enslaved Africans were forcibly transported to the Americas as part of the triangular slave trade
6. European powers raced ships across the globe in the spirit of discovery and exploration.
7. An Italian explorer responsible for the European discovery of America in 1492.
8. Portuguese explorer and navigator, and the first person to sail directly from Europe to India
9. The process by which commodities, people, and diseases crossed the Atlantic
11. Capitalism refers to an economic system in which a society's means of production are held by private individuals or organizations
12. named after their King, James I.
14. Portuguese navigator and explorer