WHII Unit 3: Empires & Exploration

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Across
  1. 1. brutal journey of slaves from Africa to the Americas
  2. 3. African empire that dominated trans-Saharan trade & practiced both animism & Islam
  3. 4. the exchange of resources, products, & other things between the Eastern & Western Hemispheres
  4. 10. race-based class system in the Spanish colonies
  5. 14. concluded that mathematical laws govern planetary motion
  6. 16. conquered the Incan Empire
  7. 17. Indian empire whose official religion was Islam but was religiously tolerant under some leaders & traded with Europe
  8. 20. believed conclusions should be drawn from observations & experimentation; provided the basis for the Scientific Method
  9. 21. "discovered" the Americas in 1492
  10. 22. attribution of souls to plants, inanimate objects, & natural phenomena
  11. 25. came up with the theory of gravity & 3 laws of motion
  12. 26. 1st to circumnavigate the globe
Down
  1. 2. his observations of the sky supported Copernicus's theories & got him tried in the Inquisition
  2. 5. empire that spanned Europe, Asia, & Africa, had Islam as the official religion, & benefited from controlling the end of the Silk Road
  3. 6. conquered the Aztec Empire
  4. 7. many people pool their money to share the risk & profits in a business
  5. 8. rounded Africa & reached India
  6. 9. economic policy that said a country's power depended mainly on its wealth & that countries should become self-sufficient
  7. 11. trade of raw materials from the Americas to Europe, manufactured goods from Europe to Africa, & slaves from Africa to the Americas
  8. 12. Christian boys taken by the Ottoman Empire & forced to convert to Islam & join the military
  9. 13. came up with the heliocentric theory (planets revolve around the sun)
  10. 15. allowed Jewish & Christian communities in the Ottoman Empire to manage their own affairs in exchange for taxes
  11. 18. system of forced labor imposed on natives in Spanish colonies
  12. 19. Asian empire controlled by the Tokugawa Shogunate that limited trade with Europe
  13. 23. African kingdom that practiced animism & Catholicism & was involved in the slave trade
  14. 24. highly advanced Asian Empire that limited trade with Europe