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- 5. Columbus -an Italian explorer and navigator who completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas.
- 7. -a conqueror, especially one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.
- 9. Exchange -he process by which plants, animals, diseases, people, and ideas have been introduced from Europe, Asia, and Africa to the Americas and vice versa
- 10. and Indian War -the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France
- 11. -A group of English Puritans, persecuted in their own country, who emigrated to America.
- 14. Dias -the first European mariner to round the southern tip of Africa
- 15. -a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.
- 16. of Tordesillas -
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- 1. Slave Trade -nvolved the transportation by slave traders of various enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas.
- 2. -home to the ruins of the first permanent English settlement in North America.
- 3. Passage -the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World.
- 4. -an economic system based on open competition in a free market, in which individuals and companies own the means of production and operate for profit.
- 6. da Gama -Portuguese navigator
- 8. Trade -a model for economic exchange among three markets.
- 12. -an economic practice by which governments used their economies to augment state power at the expense of other countries.
- 13. Henry -a central figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire and in the 15th-century European maritime discoveries and maritime expansion