age of discovery

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Across
  1. 3. the name given by Europeans to the Americas, which were unknown to most Europeans before the voyages of Christopher Columbus
  2. 5. the setting in which a historical event, idea, or object takes place; an awareness that the people who created sources were living at a time which may have held opinions and beliefs that are very different to what we consider "normal"
  3. 7. items produced from raw materials
  4. 11. goods brought into a country
  5. 12. materials from the Earth that are used by humans
Down
  1. 1. to travel all the way around something
  2. 2. the regions of the world that were known to Europeans before the discovery of the Americas
  3. 4. an economic system used by European countries to gain power by controlling the wealth of colonies; they would take natural resources from the colonies, manufacture goods in Europe, then sell the goods back to the colonies
  4. 6. originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native
  5. 8. goods sold to other countries
  6. 9. This was the trade route in which kidnapped slaves were taken from Africa across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas and traded for sugar cane, rum, tobacco, etc. from the Americas and then traded for manufactured goods made in Europe.
  7. 10. A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the Caribbean