Age of Exploration

1. European disease that wiped out untold numbers of Native Americans.
4. Major trade routes between Africa, the Americas, and Europe that perpetuated the Slave Trade.
8. Sir Walter ___, English explorer who founded the Virginia Colony.
11. The former Aztec capitol.
12. Queen of Spain who supported #15's expedition.
14. French for, "Runners of the woods," these were French fur traders in New France.
15. Christopher ___, the dumbass who landed in Cuba thinking it was India.
16. The second part of the explorer's motto.
17. England's first successful colony in Virginia.
19. A country’s success is based on the goods it imports from its colonies.

2. Spanish for, "The Royal Fifth," it was the taxes all colonial Spaniards paid to the crown.
3. Another name for Cuba and the Caribbean Islands.
5. Low-ranking nobles of New Spain.
6. Hernan ___, Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztec capitol.
7. Large areas of land given to conquistatores.
8. English colony that mysteriously failed.
9. French colonial territory around the Mississippi River.
10. ___ servants, who worked without pay for a term of years.
13. The third part of the explorer's motto.
16. The first part of the explorer's motto
18. The ___ Passage, a fabled water route around North America to Asia.