Age of Exploration vocabulary

6. a person who draws or produces maps.
8. gold or silver in bulk before coining, or valued by weight."gold bullion"
11. a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so.
12. a Portuguese explorer best known for having planned and led the 1519 Spanish expedition to the East Indies across the Pacific Ocean
13. the difference in value between a country's imports and exports.
14. a company whose stock is owned jointly by the shareholders.
15. belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.

1. the first European navigator to round the southern tip of Africa
2. a central figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire and in the 15th-century European maritime discoveries and maritime expansion.
3. a multilateral system of trading in which a country pays for its imports from one country by its exports to another.
4. a conqueror, especially one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.
5. the action or process of sailing or otherwise traveling all the way around something, especially the world.
7. a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea
9. a separation between things deemed to be distinct.
10. the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.