Transoceanic Interconnections Vocabulary
Across
- 3. Portuguese explorer who rounded the tip of Africa
- 6. A company made up of a group of shareholders. Each shareholder contributes some money to the company and receives some share of the company's profits and debts.
- 9. An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more Goods than they bought. an economic system to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests.
- 10. A new racial concept that developed in Latin America following the intermixing that occurred between European colonists and the Native American population
- 16. A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies
- 17. A joint-stock company that controlled most of India during the. Of imperialism. This company controlled the political, social and economic life in India for more than two hundred years.
- 19. A grant of authority over a population of ameridan's in the Spanish colonies. It provided the grant holder with a supply of cheap Labour and periodic payment of goods by the ameridan's. It obliged the grant holder to christianize the amerindians.
Down
- 1. Japanese ruling Dynasty that strove to isolate it from foreign influences
- 2. Portuguese prince who started a school for Sailors and sponsored early Voyages of exploration
- 4. An Italian Navigator who was funded by the Spanish government to find a passage to the Far East. He is given credit for discovering the "New World "even though at his death he believes he had made it to India. He made four voyages to the "New World" . The first sighting of land was on October 12, 1492, and three other Journeys until the time of his death in 1503.
- 5. Condition resulting from selling more Goods than are bought
- 7. Portuguese Navigator / explorer who led the Spanish expedition of 1519-1522 that was the first to sail around the world
- 8. The buying, transporting, and selling of Africans for work in the Americas
- 11. Government-chartered joint-stock company that controlled the spice trade in the East Indies
- 12. an enslaved person who is owned forever and whose children and children's children are automatically enslaved. Individuals treated as complete property to be bought and sold
- 13. A 3-way system of trade during the 1600 - 1800 Africa sent slaves to America, America Central materials to Europe, and Europe sent guns and rum to Africa.
- 14. An exchange of goods, ideas and skills from the Old World (Europe, Asia and Africa) to the new world (North and South America) and vice versa
- 15. Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547)
- 18. Last ruling Inca emperor of Peru. He was executed by the Spanish