Across
- 2. Stock Companies, a company whose stock is owned jointly by the shareholders.
- 3. Passage, A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies
- 5. Da Gama, Portuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India, opening an important commercial sea route.
- 8. The first permanent English settlement in North America, found in East Virginia
- 9. 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
- 12. System, It gave settlers the right to tax local Native Americans or to make them work. In exchange, these settlers were supposed to protect the Native American people and convert them to Christianity
- 14. Early-sixteenth-century Spanish adventurers who conquered Mexico, Central America, and Peru. (Examples Cortez, Pizarro, Francisco.)
- 15. Cortes, Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547)
Down
- 1. Pizarro, Spanish explorer who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima (1475-1541).
- 4. balance of trade, an economic situation in which a country sells more goods abroad than it buys from abroad
- 6. He, An imperial eunuch and Muslim, entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean, from Southeast Asia to Africa.
- 7. Magellan, Portuguese navigator who led the Spanish expedition of 1519-1522 that was the first to sail around the world.
- 10. Exchange, the transfer pf plants, animals, and disease between the American and Europe, Asia and Africa
- 11. A person of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry.
- 13. Trade, a trade route that exchanged goods between the West Indies, the American colonies, and West Africa