Renaissance and the Beginning of Exploration

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Across
  1. 3. native peoples of the Southwest resist Spanish colonization and mistreatment in 1680
  2. 5. the intentional and unintentional exchange of biology between Old and New Worlds
  3. 8. this metal dominated global trade, mostly coming from Spanish mines in their New World colonies
  4. 11. this slave led a revolt in colonial Virginia to overthrow slavery in that colony
  5. 12. the first European country to embark on overseas explorations in the mid-15th century
  6. 13. this crop above all others impacted the importation of slaves into the New World
  7. 14. this war was fought in New England as Indian peoples resisted English colonization
  8. 15. this "ism" says that a colony exists for the benefit of the mother country
  9. 16. this horrible institution spread to the New World, especially after the introduction of sugar to the Caribbean
Down
  1. 1. in 1492 these people were expelled from Spain in an outburst of ethnic and religious nationalism
  2. 2. this conflict emerged as Britain and France struggled for dominance in North America
  3. 4. the leg of the Triangle Trade that brought enslaved Africans to the New World
  4. 6. these people take Constantinople and close trade to the West
  5. 7. this city fell in 1453, sparking scholars moving West (Renaissance) and Explorers sailing the world (Exploration)
  6. 8. this European nation creates an Empire in the New World from Mexico to the tip of South America
  7. 9. while not exactly where he thought he was...his voyages open the door to Western Hemispheric settlement
  8. 10. this religion will become a global faith as Europeans sail the world in the Age of Exploration
  9. 15. this "system" was adopted by Spaniards from the Inca...method of "labor taxing" indigenous peasants