Vocab Unit 4 choice board.

5. He mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India.
7. selling more goods than are bought
8. person of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry.
9. explorer who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima
11. A company made up of a group of shareholders.
13. Portuguese navigator who led the Spanish expedition of 1519-1522 that was the first to sail around the world.
15. trade route that exchanged goods between the West Indies, the American colonies, and West Africa
16. first European to reach India by sea sailing around the tip of Africa.

1. The trading of various animals, diseases, and crops between the Eastern and Western hemispheres
2. conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico
3. The first permanent English settlement in North America, found in East Virginia
4. Chinese naval explorer who sailed along most of the coast of Asia, Japan, and half way down the east coast of Africa before his death.
6. Spanish soldiers and explorers who led military expeditions in the Americas and captured land for Spain
10. Spanish crown granted the conquerors the right to forcibly employ groups of Indians
12. voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America
14. 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