Ch 17: The Age of Exploration

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Across
  1. 3. A large agricultural estate.
  2. 7. A person of mixed European and Native American descent.
  3. 8. A person of mixed African and European descent.
  4. 9. The forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.
  5. 10. A settlement of people living in a new territory, linked with the parent country by trade and direct government control.
  6. 13. A leader in the Spanish conquest of the Americas.
  7. 14. A small, fast, maneuverable ship that had a large cargo hold and usually three masts with lateen sails.
Down
  1. 1. 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.
  2. 2. A labor system that the Spanish administrators in Peru used to draft indigenous people to work.
  3. 4. Payments made to support an enterprise that a government thinks is beneficial.
  4. 5. A system of labor the Spanish used in the Americas; Spanish landowners had the right, as granted by Queen Isabella, to use Native Americans as laborers.
  5. 6. A business where stocks, or a share of ownership in a company, are bought and owned by stockholders.
  6. 11. A person born on the Iberian Penisula; typically, a Spanish or Portuguese official who resided temporarily in Latin America for political and economic gain and then returned to Europe.
  7. 12. A person of European descent born in Latin America and living there permanently.