Unit 6 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. Spanish explorers who claimed land in the Americas for Spain in the 1500s & 1600s
  2. 7. Colonial trade routes among Europe, its colonies, and Africa in which goods were exchanged for slaves
  3. 9. The activity of buying and selling, especially on a large scale
  4. 10. Original or native to a country or region
  5. 12. Territory settled and ruled by people from another land
  6. 13. Large estate run by an owner or overseer and worked by laborers who live there
  7. 14. Money or wealth used to invest in business or enterprise
  8. 15. Domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region (e.g., building an empire)
Down
  1. 1. One half of the globe
  2. 2. Economic theory which says that colonies exist solely to support Mother Country
  3. 4. Process of finding the route to a destination from your current location
  4. 5. The global exchange of goods, ideas, plants and animals, and disease that began with Columbus’ exploration of the Americas
  5. 6. Map making
  6. 8. A company owned jointly by all the people who invest in it
  7. 10. A rapid rise in prices caused by too much money
  8. 11. Natural protection or resistance against disease