Topic 5 New Global Connections
Across
- 4. economic cycle that involves a rapid rise in prices linked to a sharp increase in the amount of money available
- 6. Dutch, English, and French pirates who preyed on treasure ships from the Americas in the 1500s, operating with the approval of European governments
- 10. in Spanish colonial America, an American-born descendant of Spanish settlers
- 11. having full, independent power
- 12. to travel completely around the world
- 15. money taken in through taxes
- 16. large estate run by an overseer with laborers working and living there
- 17. complete control of a product or business by one person or group
- 21. a person who makes maps
- 23. resistance, such as the power to keep from being affected by a disease
- 24. a relationship in which people agree to work together
- 27. period in European history when inflation rose rapidly
- 29. representative of the king of Spain who ruled the colonies in his name
- 30. an agreement among people
- 31. tax on imported goods
Down
- 1. revolt, especially of soldiers or sailors against their officers
- 2. in Spanish colonial America, a person born in Spain
- 3. someone sent to do religious work in a territory or foreign country
- 5. policy by which a nation sought to export more than it imported in order to build its supply of gold and silver
- 7. person who assumes financial risk in the hope of making a profit
- 8. one of the military leaders who ruled Japan prior to 1868
- 9. colonial trade routes among Europe and its colonies, the West Indies, and Africa in which goods were exchanged for slaves
- 11. Indian soldier who served in an army set up by the French or English trading companies
- 13. "conqueror" in Spanish; a leader in the Spanish
- 14. in Spanish colonial America, a person of Native American and European descent
- 18. a worker forced to labor for a landlord to payoff a debt that is impossible to payoff in his or her lifetime
- 19. economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for profit
- 20. the right, granted by Spanish monarchs to conquistadors, to demand labor or tribute from Native Americans in a particular area
- 22. a distant military station or a remote settlement
- 25. a war fought between groups of people in the same nation
- 26. a family of rulers who rule for a long time
- 28. in Spanish colonial America, a person of African and European descent