Age of Exploration

3. the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas
5. a government in power
9. 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
12. a settlement of people living in a new territory, linked with the parent country by trade and direct government control
13. bring in from abroad
16. a system of labor the Spanish used in the Americas where Spanish landowners had the right to use Native Americans as laborers
17. a large agricultural estate
18. a small, fast, maneuverable ship that had a large cargo hold and usually three masts with lateen sails
19. instrument used to calculate positions of celestial bodies
20. a leader in the Spanish conquest of America

1. the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group
2. compass based on an indicator (as a magnetic needle) that points to the magnetic north
4. to send a product or service for sale to another country
6. a person born on the Iberian Peninsula; typically, a Spanish or Portuguese official who resided temporarily in Latin America for political and economic gain and then returned to Europe
7. beyond or across the sea
8. a person of mixed European and native American Indian descent
10. a person of mixed African and European descent
11. a person of European descent born in Latin America and living there permanently
14. work performed by people that provides the goods or services in an economy
15. a journey to some distant place