Across
- 4. It was the largest forced migration of people in history, with an estimated 12–15 million Africans enslaved and transported between the 16th and 19th centuries
- 5. 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.
- 7. the exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and culture between the Old and New Worlds
- 8. a group of English settlers who traveled to North America on the Mayflower in 1620 and established Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts
- 10. was a Spanish conquistador, best known for his expeditions that led to the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire
- 13. an economic policy that aims to increase a country's wealth and power through trade restrictions
- 14. a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire
Down
- 1. was a Portuguese[3] explorer best known for having planned and led the 1519–22 Spanish expedition to the East Indies, which achieved the first circumnavigation of Earth in history
- 2. settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas
- 3. an agreement between the monarchs of Spain and Portugal in 1494 that divided the world into two spheres of influence
- 6. was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean
- 9. he became the first European navigator to round the southern tip of Africa and to demonstrate that the most effective southward route for ships lies in the open ocean
- 11. was a central figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire and in the 15th-century European maritime discoveries and maritime expansion
- 12. was a Portuguese explorer and nobleman who was the first European to reach India by sea