The Age of Discovery

2. A term used to describe people of mixed European and black descent, especially in the Caribbean, or a language that has developed from a mixture of languages, particularly in colonial regions.
4. The ability of an organism to resist a particular infection or toxin by the action of specific antibodies or sensitized white blood cells.
10. A person born in Spain who resided in the New World or the Spanish East Indies during the Spanish colonial period.
11. A historical term indicating trade among three ports or regions, typically involving the exchange of slaves, cash crops, and manufactured goods between West Africa, the Caribbean or American colonies, and European colonial powers.
12. The forced movement of people from their homeland, often due to conflict, natural disaster, or other coercive circumstances.
14. A tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports.
15. The widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas between the Americas and the Old World following Christopher Columbus's voyages.

1. A Spanish conqueror of the Americas during the 16th century, known for their exploration and conquest of new territories.
3. A labor system in colonial Spanish America granting a colonist authority over a specified group of Indigenous people, obliging them to provide labor or pay tribute in exchange for protection and Christian teaching.
5. The sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies, a key part of the triangular trade in slaves across the Atlantic Ocean.
6. The movement of people from one place to another based on their own initiative and desire, often for better living conditions or job opportunities.
7. An economic theory and practice, dominant in Europe from the 16th to the 18th century, that promotes governmental regulation of a nation's economy for the purpose of augmenting state power at the expense of rival national powers.
8. A term traditionally used in Spain and Latin America to denote a person of combined European and Indigenous American descent.
9. The transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas, from the 16th to the 19th century.
13. A person of mixed white and black ancestry, especially one having one white and one black parent.