Age of exploration Vocab

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Across
  1. 6. was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, precious metals, commodities, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas
  2. 8. the invaders, knights, soldiers, and explorers of the Spanish and the Portuguese Empires. During the Age of Discovery
  3. 9. a central figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire and in the 15th-century European maritime discoveries and maritime expansion
  4. 12. signed in Tordesillas, Spain on 7 June 1494, and authenticated in Setúbal, Portugal, divided the newly-discovered lands outside Europe between the Portuguese Empire
  5. 14. an Italian explorer and navigator who completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas.
  6. 15. 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.
  7. 16. a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea. His initial voyage to India by way of Cape of Good Hope was the first to link Europe and Asia by an ocean route,
Down
  1. 1. the stage of the Atlantic slave trade in which millions of enslaved Africans were forcibly transported to the Americas
  2. 2. a multilateral system of trading in which a country pays for its imports from one country by its exports to another.
  3. 3. a theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French
  4. 4. home to the ruins of the first permanent English settlement in North America. It includes the remains of 18th-century Ambler Mansion.
  5. 5. a person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons.
  6. 7. Euro-American slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of various enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas.
  7. 10. a Portuguese mariner and explorer. In 1488, he became the first European navigator to round the southern tip of Africa
  8. 11. an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
  9. 13. 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.