The Renaissance and Age of Exploration

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Across
  1. 4. this war "made America" as Britain and France war for dominance over North America
  2. 6. these rebellions against Spanish rule were in the Desert Southwest
  3. 7. the intentional/unintentional exchange of biology in the New and Old Worlds
  4. 11. the "revolutionary" expansion of trade and manufacturing from the Age of Exploration
  5. 13. the British and Dutch established these as a government/private investment company to exploit global riches
  6. 14. the European credited with "discovering" the Americas
  7. 15. Virginia slave that led a rebellion against slavery in 1831
  8. 16. the most precious metal to be mined out of America...used for global trade
Down
  1. 1. when government controls trade in its colonies/the colonies exist for profit
  2. 2. the European nation that began the Age of Exploration...focused on the East
  3. 3. the European nation that created Empire from Mexico through South America
  4. 5. the philosophy of the Renaissance, humans at the center of the universe, root of the humanities
  5. 8. European era of "rebirth" and re-interest in the Classical Age
  6. 9. these Turks blocked the trade routes to the East, sparking the Age of Exploration
  7. 10. this sweet cash crop drove the Trans-Atlantic slave trade
  8. 12. Spanish labor system in the Americas modeled on Inca system