Early America

2. Europe was looking for a quicker route to this continent.
7. The newly-discovered western hemisphere, previously unknown to European explorers.
8. The "land bridge" theorized to have allowed nomads to enter America by foot.
10. Empire in modern-day Mexico that was conquered by the spanish in the 16th century.
11. Large-scale agriculture and wholesale exploitation of slave labor.
12. The continent in which most slaves were brought to America from.

1. New ship technology that allowed Europeans to sail longer distances against the wind.
3. Florentine explorer by whom America was named.
4. The transfer of goods, crops, and diseases between the New and Old World after 1492.
5. Europeans contracted to work for a specified number of years in exchange for free passage to the New World.
6. Italian explorer who landed on the coast of the Dominican Republic in the late 15th century.
9. The first English settlement in the New World.