Exploration & Colonization Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• mestizos : the children of native americans and europeans.
• great silk road : overland trade routes linking china to the middle east.
• import : to bring a product into a country to be sold.
• mercantilism : 17th century economic belief that a country's prosperity depended on having a large supply of gold and silver.
• encomienda : the right of spanish landowners in the americas to use native americans as laborers.
• mestizo : in spain's american colonies, person of mixed spanish and indian background.
• columbian exchange : the exchange of plants and animals between europe and the americas.
• export : to send a product to be sold in another country.
• cash crops : a crop that is grown to be sold rather than used by the farmer.
• north west passage : a natural waterway through or around north america.
• plantations : large agricultural estates where crops are grown.
• peninsulare: person from spain who held a position of power in a spanish colony.
• creoles : descendants of europeans who were born in latin america.
• balance of trade : the difference in value of what a nation imports compared to what it exports over time.
• astrolabe : navigational instrument used to determine latitude while at sea.
• circumnavigation : sail around a round object, such as the world.
• mulattoes : the children of africans and europeans
• conquistador : spanish conquerors of the americas
• colony : an area that is controlled by or belongs to a country and is usually far away from it