making of a global world

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Across
  1. 2. Migrants from ______ went to Ceylon and Malaya
  2. 4. Animals were slaughtered for food at the starting point – in America, Australia or New Zealand, and then transported to ________ as frozen meat, thereby reducing the shipping costs and reducing meat prices.
  3. 5. Reduced role of ________ and the rising importance of the Americas gradually moved the centre of world trade westwards
  4. 9. In Africa, in the 1890s, a fast-spreading disease of _______ had a terrifying impact on people’s livelihoods and the local economy
  5. 11. The loss of _______ destroyed African livelihoods
  6. 12. Which country passed the ‘Corn Laws’ to restrict the import of corn?
  7. 14. In 1885, the big European powers met in ______ to complete the carving up of Africa between them
  8. 15. Demand for ______ led to the migration of people to America and Australia
Down
  1. 1. Many of our common foods, such as potatoes, soya, groundnuts, maize, etc., were only introduced in Europe and Asia after ________ accidentally discovered the vast continent that would later become known as the Americas.
  2. 3. The US also became a colonial power in the late 1890s by taking over some colonies earlier held by ________.
  3. 6. Europeans came to _______ hoping to establish plantations and mines, but they faced the problem of Labour shortage
  4. 7. One of the oldest livestock markets in ________ was at Smithfield
  5. 8. Precious metals, particularly _______, from mines located in present-day Peru and Mexico enhanced Europe’s wealth and financed its trade with Asia.
  6. 10. America’s original inhabitants had no immunity against diseases that came from Europe. _______, in particular, proved a deadly killer.
  7. 12. Many expeditions set off in search of El Dorado, the fabled city of ______.
  8. 13. Rinderpest arrived in Africa in the late 1880s. It was carried by infected cattle imported from British Asia to feed the Italian soldiers invading ______ in East Africa