Unit 3 Vocab Crossword

6. Spanish explorers that were allowed to claim land they discovered for Spain 🗑
9. Region between the Gold Coast and the mouth of the Niger River. 🗑
11. English explorer who explored the territory from New York to Canada. 🗑
13. Islands in the Caribbean that were confused by Christopher Columbus to be India. 🗑
14. Spanish historian and missionary. Exposed the oppression of natives by Europeans in the Americas. 🗑
17. Started to build the Spanish Empire by financing voyages of exploration into the New World. 🗑
19. Spanish explorer that conquered the Incan empire in 1533. 🗑
21. Explored the eastern coast of South America and identified the territory as the New World not Asia. 🗑
22. a trade practice wherein nations maintain a favorable balance in trade by increasing exports and decreasing imports.
23. The selling of more goods to other countries instead of buying goods. 🗑
24. Sailed around Africa in 1498 to India and back.
25. Transfer of people, animals, plants, technologies, and diseases between the Old World and the New World. 🗑
26. Plantations systems in Brazil where sugar was the cash crop and African slave labor was used. 🗑

1. Spanish explorer that conquered the Aztec empire in 1519. 🗑
2. European settlements in the New World and Asia that would provide raw materials that the mother country would sell for profit. 🗑
3. The transportation of slaves across the Atlantic Ocean 🗑
4. Spanish explorer. First European to cross the isthmus of Panama and reach the Pacific Ocean. 🗑
5. Led expedition to circumnavigate the globe. 🗑
7. French explorer that discovered Canada and founded the city of Montreal. 🗑
8. Spanish explorer. Explored areas from Florida to South Carolina, across Georgia and west to Mississippi. 🗑
10. smaller, shallower ships with triangular sails which allowed ships to sail against the wind 🗑
12. A tool that shows where magnetic north is; helps explorers navigate on land and water. 🗑
15. Trade between Europe, Africa and the Americas 🗑
16. Start of capitalism. Business shared by investors who each own one share of the business. Used by the English and Dutch.
18. Frist European explorer to read the southern tip of Africa in 1488. 🗑
20. Started a school of navigation where sea captains, mapmakers, and navigators could meet, learn and exchange ideas 🗑