Atlantic World Vocabulary
Across
- 1. A small, fast sailing ship used by European explorers
- 4. A large estate used for agricultural production, often using enslaved labor
- 5. A system of exchange between Europe, Africa, and the Americas
- 7. A Spanish conqueror who sought wealth, power, and new territory in the New World
- 10. In the triangular trade, what Europeans took from the Americas
- 11. What Europeans called the Americas and Australia
- 12. The buying and selling of enslaved people
Down
- 2. The ocean between Europe and the Americas
- 3. The Italian explorer often credited with discovering America
- 6. A navigational tool showing where things are
- 8. The continents of Europe, Asia, and Africa, known to Europeans before the discovery of the Americas.
- 9. European explorers carried these, including small pox, and they were very deadly for Native Americans