Exploration and Colonization

1. an Italian explorer who is credited with discovering the Americas in 1492
2. a highly contagious and deadly disease brought to the Americas by European explorers, causing devastating epidemics among indigenous populations
4. a group of English Protestants who sought religious reform and established colonies like the Massachusetts Bay Colony
6. set of economic ideas about how a country can get rich
10. a pure raw resource that we get from nature
12. the act of traveling and investigating new territories for various purposes, including trade, conquest, and expansion
14. a disease caused by a deficiency of vitamin C, common among sailors during long voyages, which had a significant impact on early exploration
15. a trade system between Europe, Africa, and the Americas involving the exchange of goods, including slaves, during the colonial period
17. Spanish and Portuguese explorers and conquerors who played a significant role in the colonization of the Americas
18. a Portuguese explorer who led the first expedition to circumnavigate the Earth in the early 16th century

1. the lands or territories the mother country controls
3. things that are man-made
5. goods made in another country and sold in the first country
7. the Americas discovered by European explorers in the late 15th and early 16th centuries
8. a Spanish explorer who is known for being the first European to reach the Pacific Ocean by crossing the Isthmus of Panama in 1513
9. the exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Old World and the New World following Columbus's voyages
11. the establishment and maintenance of settlements, often by a foreign power, in a newly discovered or conquered territory
13. the central controlling country
16. good made within the country and sold out to other countries
19. any country that controls other lands that are not traditionally part of it