Across
- 1. an Italian explorer who is credited with discovering the Americas in 1492
- 2. a highly contagious and deadly disease brought to the Americas by European explorers, causing devastating epidemics among indigenous populations
- 4. a group of English Protestants who sought religious reform and established colonies like the Massachusetts Bay Colony
- 6. set of economic ideas about how a country can get rich
- 10. a pure raw resource that we get from nature
- 12. the act of traveling and investigating new territories for various purposes, including trade, conquest, and expansion
- 14. a disease caused by a deficiency of vitamin C, common among sailors during long voyages, which had a significant impact on early exploration
- 15. a trade system between Europe, Africa, and the Americas involving the exchange of goods, including slaves, during the colonial period
- 17. Spanish and Portuguese explorers and conquerors who played a significant role in the colonization of the Americas
- 18. a Portuguese explorer who led the first expedition to circumnavigate the Earth in the early 16th century
Down
- 1. the lands or territories the mother country controls
- 3. things that are man-made
- 5. goods made in another country and sold in the first country
- 7. the Americas discovered by European explorers in the late 15th and early 16th centuries
- 8. a Spanish explorer who is known for being the first European to reach the Pacific Ocean by crossing the Isthmus of Panama in 1513
- 9. the exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Old World and the New World following Columbus's voyages
- 11. the establishment and maintenance of settlements, often by a foreign power, in a newly discovered or conquered territory
- 13. the central controlling country
- 16. good made within the country and sold out to other countries
- 19. any country that controls other lands that are not traditionally part of it