Across
- 6. conquered the Incas and executing their leader, Atahuapla.
- 8. the dominant economic system from the 16th century to the 18th century
- 9. an acute contagious disease caused by the variola virus, a member of the orthopoxvirus family
- 10. his dramatic confrontation with the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés
- 12. pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French
- 14. a group of people of one nationality or ethnic group living in a foreign city or country.
- 15. an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.
- 17. a system of exchange in which Europe supplied Africa and the Americas with finished goods
- 18. the stage of the Atlantic slave trade in which millions of enslaved Africans were transported to the Americas as part of the triangular slave trade
- 19. a grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indian inhabitants of an area.
- 20. overthrew the Aztec empire (1519–21) and won Mexico for the crown of Spain.
Down
- 1. a navigator who explored the Americas under the flag of Spain
- 2. kicked off in the Age of Discovery
- 3. was the last effective Inca emperor before his capture and execution during the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire
- 4. a business owned by its shareholders, who can buy and sell shares freely.
- 5. two-way exchanges between the Americas and Europe/Africa
- 7. transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people to the Americas.
- 11. a man of mixed race, especially one having Spanish and indigenous descent.
- 13. he term used to refer to Spanish and Portuguese soldiers and explorers.
- 16. America's first permanent English colony
