Across
- 2. was a central figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire and in the 15th-century European maritime discoveries and maritime expansion
- 4. Euro-American slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of various enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas
- 5. 1st Count of Vidigueira, was a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea
- 10. trade between three ports or regions.
- 11. divided the newly-discovered lands outside Europe between the Portuguese Empire and the Spanish Empire, along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa.
- 12. a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.
- 13. home to the ruins of the first permanent English settlement in North America. It includes the remains of 18th-century Ambler Mansion.
- 14. especially one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.
- 15. the exchange of diseases, ideas, food. crops, and populations between the New World and the Old World
Down
- 1. the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French, each side being supported by various Native American tribes
- 2. were the English settlers who came to North America on the Mayflower and established the Plymouth Colony
- 3. the economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government should encourage by means of protectionism.
- 6. an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state
- 7. the stage of the Atlantic slave trade
- 8. a Portuguese mariner and explorer. In 1488, he became the first European navigator to round the southern tip of Africa and to demonstrate that the most effective southward route for ships
- 9. was an Italian explorer and navigator who completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean
