Across
- 5. the widespread transfer of plants, animals, and diseases
- 12. an agreement between the Kingdoms of Spain and Portugal that defined where each could explore and claim lands
- 13. first permanent English settlement in North America 1607
- 14. segment of the global slave trade that transported between 10 million and 12 million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic
- 15. an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit
- 16. the economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government should encourage by means of protectionism
Down
- 1. a Portuguese mariner and explorer. In 1488, he became the first European navigator to round the southern tip of Africa
- 2. 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
- 3. a multilateral system of trading in which a country pays for its imports from one country by its exports to another
- 4. a person who is out to conquer new territory
- 6. a person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons
- 7. the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies
- 8. an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean
- 9. the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War
- 10. a central figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire and in the 15th-century European maritime discoveries and maritime expansion
- 11. a Portuguese explorer and nobleman who was the first European to reach India by sea