Across
- 2. Migrants from ______ went to Ceylon and Malaya
- 4. Animals were slaughtered for food at the starting point – in America, Australia or New Zealand, and then transported to ________ as frozen meat, thereby reducing the shipping costs and reducing meat prices.
- 5. Reduced role of ________ and the rising importance of the Americas gradually moved the centre of world trade westwards
- 9. In Africa, in the 1890s, a fast-spreading disease of _______ had a terrifying impact on people’s livelihoods and the local economy
- 11. The loss of _______ destroyed African livelihoods
- 12. Which country passed the ‘Corn Laws’ to restrict the import of corn?
- 14. In 1885, the big European powers met in ______ to complete the carving up of Africa between them
- 15. Demand for ______ led to the migration of people to America and Australia
Down
- 1. Many of our common foods, such as potatoes, soya, groundnuts, maize, etc., were only introduced in Europe and Asia after ________ accidentally discovered the vast continent that would later become known as the Americas.
- 3. The US also became a colonial power in the late 1890s by taking over some colonies earlier held by ________.
- 6. Europeans came to _______ hoping to establish plantations and mines, but they faced the problem of Labour shortage
- 7. One of the oldest livestock markets in ________ was at Smithfield
- 8. Precious metals, particularly _______, from mines located in present-day Peru and Mexico enhanced Europe’s wealth and financed its trade with Asia.
- 10. America’s original inhabitants had no immunity against diseases that came from Europe. _______, in particular, proved a deadly killer.
- 12. Many expeditions set off in search of El Dorado, the fabled city of ______.
- 13. Rinderpest arrived in Africa in the late 1880s. It was carried by infected cattle imported from British Asia to feed the Italian soldiers invading ______ in East Africa