The Age of Exploration Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. different European countries established a ______________ in the Americas, controlling the government and trade of the new settlement.
  2. 4. a person of mixed African and European descent.
  3. 7. the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic ocean to the Americas.
  4. 10. the opposite of import; it is a product or service sent out of the country.
  5. 12. typically a Spanish or Portuguese offical who lived temporarily in Latin America for political and economic gain.
Down
  1. 1. the Spanish conquerors of the Americas; a leader in the Spanish conquest of the Americas.
  2. 3. a small, fast ship developed by the Portuguese that made the voyages of exploration possible.
  3. 5. a large agricultural estate, where crops such as sugar, cotton, and vanilla were grown.
  4. 6. a person of European descent born in Latin America and living there permanently.
  5. 8. a system of labor the Spanish used in the Americas; Native Americans were forced to pay taxes & provide labor, in exchange for protection from the Spanish landowners.
  6. 9. mercantilists believed in the principles of this system; that the success of a nation depended on a large supply of gold and silver.
  7. 11. a person of mixed European and Native American descent.