Test: Ch. 16 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 4. grants of money given by the government used to encourage manufacturing
  2. 6. first realized that Columbus's discoveries were a New World, named "America" after him
  3. 8. economic theory that sated that there was a fixed amount of wealth in the world
  4. 9. a massive exchange of goods that took place after Columbus's voyage
  5. 11. first to sail around the southern tip of Africa
  6. 15. the period of major economic change between the 1400s and the 1700s
  7. 18. name given to the trade route where goods and slaves were sent between Europe, The Americas, and Africa
  8. 20. financed by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella to travel across the Atlantic to Asia, believed he had reach India and named the new found land the West Indies.
Down
  1. 1. uses a magnetized piece of metal that points to the north
  2. 2. named the Pacific Ocean after using it to reach Asia from the west
  3. 3. business organization where owners raised money by selling shares, or stock, in the company
  4. 5. states the sun is the center of the universe
  5. 7. the transporting of slaves across teh Atlantic to the Americas
  6. 10. sailed around the southern tip of Africa and opened a direct trade route from Europe to the Indies
  7. 12. transformation in thinking caused by scientific observation, experimentation, and the questioning of traditional opinions
  8. 13. states the earth is the center of the universe
  9. 14. carefully conducted experiments and mathematical calculations used to verify the results of experiments
  10. 16. built the first telescope used to observed the motion of planets
  11. 17. believed all assumptions had to be proven on the basis of known facts; "I think, therefore I am"
  12. 19. gave us the law of gravity