Age of Exploration: Crossword Puzzle

2. A settlement of people living in a new territory, linked with the parent country by trade and direct government control.
4. Passage The forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.
5. A leader in the Spanish conquest of America.
7. The customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group.
12. The act of searching or traveling around a terrain for the purpose of discovery of resources or information.
13. A basic economic concept involving the buying and selling of goods and services, with compensation paid by a buyer to a seller, or the exchange of goods or services between parties.
16. A system of labor the Spanish used in the Americas; Spanish landowners had the right, as granted by Queen Isabella, to use Native Americans as laborers.
17. A person of mixed European and native American Indian decent
18. 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.

1. A government in power.
2. A small, fast, maneuverable ship that had a large cargo hold and usually three masts with lateen sails.
3. People with all their abilities and efforts; work performed by people that provides the goods or services in an economy.
6. Beyond or across the sea.
8. A large agriculture estate.
9. To send a product or service for sale to another country.
10. 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.
11. To select for some purpose; to conscript.
14. A person of European descent born in Latin America and living there permanently.
15. A labor system that the Spanish administrators in Peru used to draft native people to work in the Spanish landowners' silver mines.
17. A person of mixed African and European descent.