Across
- 4. a dominant economic system (16th-18th centuries) where governments regulated economies to build national power by maximizing exports, minimizing imports, and accumulating gold/silver
- 7. First voyager to make it to Asia via boat.
- 9. uncoined, refined precious metal (gold, silver, platinum) valued by weight,
- 11. a brutal, three-legged maritime system connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas from the 16th to 19th centuries
- 12. boundary set by Pope Alexander VI dividing newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal
- 13. an innovator who organizes, manages, and assumes the financial risks of a new business venture
- 14. A map maker
- 15. Guy who donated a lot to discovery and research to voyage.
Down
- 1. led the first voyage to circumnavigate Earth
- 2. business model where investors pooled capital by buying shares, allowing for massive ventures like colonization and global trade
- 3. Spanish and Portuguese explorers and soldiers
- 5. the difference between a nation's exports and imports
- 6. First voyager to make it to the bottom of Africa
- 8. brutal, forced sea journey of enslaved Africans
- 10. traveling completely around the Earth