The Age of Exploration
Across
- 4. Portuguese navigator who first circumnavigated the globe
- 5. home-based manufacturing businesses run by families
- 6. system in which individuals decide what goods and services to buy
- 8. famous English pirate who robbed Spanish ships in the Americas
- 12. exchange of plants, animals and ideas between the New World (the Americas) and the Old World (Europe)
- 15. huge fleet of Spanish ships defeated during an attack on England in 1588
- 17. system in which individuals and private businesses run most industries
Down
- 1. trading system in which the government controls all economic activity
- 2. large farms
- 3. Italian explorer who accidentally discovered the Americas
- 7. Spanish priest who opposed harsh treatment of the Indians and wanted to bring slaves from Africa to work the plantations
- 9. to go all the way around
- 10. collection of maps
- 11. Portuguese prince who started a sailing school and funded many expeditions
- 13. relationship between imported goods and exported goods
- 14. first explorer to sail safely around Africa to India
- 16. belief that some people are better than others because of racial traits