Global Convergence Key Terms

3. A water route to Asia through present-day Canada.
5. The first English colony in Virginia.
10. The route taken by enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean.
11. The first Puritans to come to North America.
12. Explorer who searched for the "seven cities of gold."
13. A movement of people from one place to another.
14. Important crop from the Americas that led to a population explosion in Africa and Asia.
15. A hard white substance from the tusk of an animal, such as an elephant.
16. A three-sided trade route that linked Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
18. Instrument used to determine latitude.
19. A water route to Asia.
20. Valuable wood from Brazil used to make reddish-purple dye.
22. An ocean between Europe and Africa and the Americas.
26. First permanent European settlement in Canada.
27. A member of a religious order who encourages people to convert to a particular religion.
28. Portuguese colony in South America.
29. Spanish colony in North America.

1. Economic theory that a country's economic success depends on the amount of gold the country has.
2. Agreement made by the Pilgrims to form a government and obey its laws.
4. Spanish explorers and soldiers who conquered territory in the Americas.
6. Name for the exchange of people, plants, animals, and ideas between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
7. A very different form of this labor developed in the Americas.
8. Explorer who claimed Brazil for Portugal.
9. The business of capturing, transporting, and selling people into slavery.
17. Agreement between Spain and Portugal dividing the non-European world.
21. Portuguese explorer who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope.
23. Spanish explorer who conquered the Aztec empire.
24. Spanish explorer who conquered the Incan empire.
25. People who wanted to "purify" the Church of England.