Across
- 5. sailed around southern tip of Africa in 1488
- 8. 1st successfule English colony in Americas
- 9. sailed Atlantic Ocean into St. Lawrence River
- 10. route through or around North America to East Asia
- 12. grown for sale rather than subsistence
- 13. Spanish commercial center
- 14. residence where a powerful man's wives and concubines lived
- 15. heavy armed Spanish ships
- 16. system which sultan granted land or tax revenues to those he favored
- 20. landowners
- 21. 1494 Spain and Portugal divide Americas
- 22. 1st to circumnavigate globe
- 23. 1st European monarch to sponsor seafearing expeditions
- 24. all of estate goes to eldest son
Down
- 1. empire based on small outposts
- 2. journey the slaves took across Atlantic Ocean
- 3. owned by investors who bought stock in them
- 4. Spanish soldiers
- 6. transformation from trade based economy using silver and gold
- 7. mapmaking
- 11. dispersion of Africans out of Africa
- 12. linked indigenous America, Europe, and Africa - shared disease, foods, and animals
- 17. idea that you sell more than you buy and have gold in reserve
- 18. landed in India in 1498
- 19. map of stars & galaxies