Vocab List

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Across
  1. 1. The widespread transfer of plants, animals, precious metals, commodities, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas
  2. 4. A company used to limit the many risks and costs associated with certain types of business
  3. 5. Brought an end to the Portuguese monopoly over the spice trade
  4. 7. Occurs when a country exports more goods than it imports.
  5. 8. Musa Ruler of the kingdom of Mali from 1312 C.E. to 1337 C.E.
  6. 9. Among the most skilled and productive craftsmen of Africa.
  7. 12. A Spanish conquistador who is best known for his expeditions that led to the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire.
  8. 15. Portuguese mariner and explorer,became first European to round the southern tip of Africa
  9. 16. A nationalist economic policy that is designed to maximize the exports and minimize the imports for an economy.
  10. 19. People famous for their cloth weaving and dyeing, cotton goods, leather sandals,
  11. 20. Chinese leader that was known for the commanding the largest and most advanced fleet the world had ever seen
  12. 22. A person who is out to conquer new territory.
  13. 24. One of the largest empires in West African History
  14. 25. A state that dominated the western Sahel in the 15th and 16th centuries
Down
  1. 1. A country under the full or partial country of another country
  2. 2. Cortes Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire
  3. 3. A Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea
  4. 6. Treaty signed in Tordesillas, declaring the divide of the New World into Spain and Portuguese spheres of influence
  5. 10. A Spanish labour system that rewarded conquerors with the labour of conquered non-Christian peoples
  6. 11. A person of mixed European and indigenous non-European ancestry in the former Spanish Empire.
  7. 13. First ruler of the Mali Empire from 1235 C.E. to 1255 C.E.
  8. 14. An Italian explorer and navigator who was known for the “discovery” of the ‘new world’
  9. 17. An economic system in which private actors own and control property in accord with their interests
  10. 18. First of the great medieval trading empires of western Africa
  11. 21. Portuguese prince known for sponsoring Nuno Tristao's exploration of the African coast,and Antao Goncalves's hunting expedition
  12. 23. one of the principal historic kingdoms of the western African forest region