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Across
  1. 3. a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country
  2. 5. swap of Old and New World germs, animals, plants, peoples, and cultures
  3. 7. any of the leaders in the Spanish conquest of America
  4. 8. a native ethnic group in West Africa
  5. 11. is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.
  6. 12. was the ninth Mansa of the Mali Empire, which reached its territorial peak during his reign. Musa is known for his wealth and generosity
  7. 13. known for the works of Sunni Ali and Muhammad I Askia.
  8. 14. commanded the largest and most advanced fleet the world had ever seen
  9. 17. a person of mixed European and indigenous non-European ancestry in the former Spanish Empire
  10. 18. the first European navigator to round the southern tip of Africa
  11. 20. occurs when a country exports more goods than it imports
  12. 24. known for his 1492 'discovery' of the 'new world' of the Americas on board his ship Santa Maria.
  13. 25. the idea that a nation's wealth and power were best served by increasing exports and reducing imports
  14. 26. country of western Africa. The official capital is Porto-Novo
Down
  1. 1. conquistador, a soldier, an official, or others of a specified number of “Indios”
  2. 2. a company whose stock is owned jointly by the shareholders
  3. 4. one of the three largest ethnic groups of Nigeria, concentrated in the southwestern part of that country
  4. 6. an explorer, soldier and conquistador best known for conquering the Incas and executing their leader, Atahuapla
  5. 9. was the first ruler of the Mali Empire in the 13th century C.E.
  6. 10. trading company founded in the Dutch Republic in 1602
  7. 15. a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south
  8. 16. divided the New World into Spanish and Portuguese spheres of influence
  9. 19. a landlocked country in West Africa, located southwest
  10. 21. most notable for his role in the destruction of the Aztec Empire in 1521
  11. 22. best known for being the first to sail from Europe to India by rounding Africa's Cape of Good Hope
  12. 23. known for 6 marriages