Across
- 3. Portuguese navigator who led the Spanish expedition of 1519-1522 that was the first to sail around the world.
- 6. The exchange of disease, crops, animals, and humans between Europe and the Americas
- 9. Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547)
- 10. Spanish explorer who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima (1475-1541)
- 12. An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought
- 14. Portuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India, opening an important commercial sea route.
- 15. Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506)
- 16. Early-sixteenth-century Spanish adventurers who conquered Mexico, Central America, and Peru. (Examples Cortez, Pizarro, Francisco.)
Down
- 1. A three way system of trade during 1600-1800s Africa sent slaves to America, America sent Raw Materials to Europe, and Europe sent Guns and Rum to Africa
- 2. businesses formed by groups of people who jointly make an investment and share in the profits and losses
- 4. a kind of feudalism granting Spanish colonists control of conquered lands and obliging the Indians to provide forced labor and a fixed portion of their harvests
- 5. The first permanent English settlement in North America, found in East Virginia
- 7. an economic situation in which a country sells more goods abroad than it buys from abroad
- 8. The term used by Spanish authorities to describe someone of mixed native American and European descent.
- 11. Chinese admiral during the Ming Dynasty, he led great voyages that spread China's fame throughout Asia
- 13. A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies