Age of Exploration

3. Colombus An Italian explorer and navigator who completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas
10. Spanish and Portuguese officials in the New World who were born in Europe and held all the important government positions.
11. A journey to some distant place.
13. a set of principles that dominated economic thought in the seventeenth century; it held that the prosperity of a nation depended on a large supply of gold and silver.
15. large agricultural estates where crops are grown.
16. to send a product or service for sale to another country.
17. Passage the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas
19. of trade The difference in value of what a nation imports compared to what it exports over time.

1. A small, fast, maneuverable ship that had a large cargo hold and usually three masts with lateen sails.
2. a leader in the Spanish conquest of America.
4. Beyond or across the sea
5. Descendents of Europeans who were born in Latin America.
6. a device that shows the cardinal directions used for navigation and geographic orientation.
7. to bring a product into a country to be sold.
8. the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group.
9. Exchange The exchange of plants and animals between Europe and the Americas.
12. A settlement of people living in a new territory, linked with the parent country by trade and direct government control.
14. A government in power.
15. Henry the Navigator a central figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire and in the 15th-century European maritime discoveries and maritime expansion.
18. Crop A crop that is grown to be sold rather than used by the farmer.