Across
- 5. people of a specified class or group.
- 6. belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.
- 8. an instrument formerly used to make astronomical measurements
- 9. hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of race or political or religious beliefs.
- 11. the stage of human social and cultural development and organization that is considered most advanced.
- 12. a line or border separating two countries.
- 14. an important assignment carried out for political, religious, or commercial purposes, typically involving travel.
Down
- 1. an inhabitant of a town or borough with full rights of citizenship.
- 2. a person or institution that owes a sum of money.
- 3. a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country.
- 4. a crop produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower.
- 7. a written grant by a country's legislative or sovereign power, by which a body such as a company, college, or city is founded and its rights and privileges defined.
- 8. a person who is learning a trade from a skilled employer, having agreed to work for a fixed period at low wages.
- 10. an estate on which crops such as coffee, sugar, and tobacco are cultivated by resident labor.
- 13. the legislative body of a country or state.