Across
- 2. A wide outbreak of disease.
- 6. Set out to find a new trade route to Asia, ended up horribly lost, and found himself in the Caribbean.
- 9. A life-threatening, mosquito-borne disease (Old World).
- 10. Long-lasting impact of exploration/colonization.
- 11. A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
- 12. Goods (or people) carried on ships.
- 15. Spanish conqueror, like Cortés or Pizarro.
- 17. Native peoples of the Americas.
- 18. Catastrophic loss of Indigenous populations due to disease.
- 20. A spanish social system which classified people into certain classes.
- 22. Large farm worked by enslaved laborers, producing sugar or tobacco.
Down
- 1. New World crop that spread worldwide, also known as corn.
- 3. Forced dispersal and displacement of people from their homeland.
- 4. A group of territories, usually taken by force, controlled by a single power (Spain, France England, etc).
- 5. Resistance to disease, which Indigenous populations lacked.
- 7. Transfer of plants, animals, people, and diseases between hemispheres.
- 8. New connections linking Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
- 13. A settlement controlled by a distat power or country.
- 14. Country who funded Columbus's voyages across the Atlantic.
- 16. A blistering, highly contagious disease responsible for wiping out millions of Indigenous peoples (Old World).
- 19. Animals Europeans brought that reshaped life in the Americas.
- 21. A crop with high yields of profit, such as sugar, cotton, tobacco, and indigo.
