World History Vocab 14

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Across
  1. 2. A Dutch settlement at the southern tip of Africa used as a supply station for ships traveling to Asia.
  2. 4. A hoped-for sea route through North America to Asia that explorers searched for but never found.
  3. 5. A Spanish priest who spoke out against the mistreatment of Indigenous peoples in the Americas.
  4. 8. A Spanish explorer who explored Florida while searching for mythical riches like the Fountain of Youth.
  5. 9. An English explorer who searched for the Northwest Passage and explored the Hudson River and Bay.
  6. 11. A major trading city in Southeast Asia that controlled key spice trade routes.
  7. 12. An economic system where businesses are privately owned and operate for profit.
  8. 14. People of mixed Indigenous and Spanish ancestry in colonial Latin America.
  9. 16. People born in Spain who lived in the Americas and held the highest social and political positions.
  10. 17. A tall tropical plant used to produce sugar; it became a major crop on plantations in the Americas.
  11. 19. A three-part trade system linking Europe, Africa, and the Americas involving goods, enslaved people, and raw materials.
  12. 21. A Portuguese explorer who was the first European to sail around the southern tip of Africa.
  13. 22. A business where investors buy shares and share in the profits and losses.
  14. 23. A system where Spanish settlers were granted land and Indigenous labor in exchange for protection and Christian teaching.
Down
  1. 1. A Spanish explorer who traveled through the American Southwest searching for the “Seven Cities of Gold.”
  2. 3. A high-ranking official who ruled a colony in place of the king.
  3. 6. A Portuguese explorer who was the first to reach India by sea, opening a major trade route.
  4. 7. The global transfer of plants, animals, people, and diseases between the Americas and the Old World after 1492.
  5. 10. A powerful fleet sent by Spain in 1588 to invade England, which was defeated by the English navy and storms.
  6. 13. People of Spanish descent born in the Americas, ranking below peninsulares.
  7. 15. A powerful Dutch trading company that controlled trade in Asia during the 1600s.
  8. 18. Large areas of Spanish America ruled by officials who governed in the name of the king.
  9. 20. Large estates or plantations in Spanish America where crops or livestock were produced.