Movement of Peoples Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• abolitionist: person who fought to end slavery.
• bennelong: an aboriginal man who was a key figure in early contact with europeans in australia.
• colonialism: the practice of acquiring control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting its resources.
• colonisation: the act of establishing control over a foreign territory.
• commodities: raw materials or primary agricultural products that can be bought and sold.
• convict: a person found guilty of a crime and sentenced to imprisonment, often used in reference to those transported to penal colonies during the british empires expansion
• diaspora: the dispersion or spread of people from their homeland to other regions, often due to migration or forced displacement.
• dispossession: the act of taking away land or property from its rightful owner.
• emigration: the act of leaving one's own country to settle permanently in another.
• empire: a group of countries or regions controlled by one ruler or government, often through colonization and domination of other peoples.
• free settlers: people who moved to a new land voluntarily, not as convicts.
• hulks: old ships used as floating prisons for convicts
• middle passage: the brutal sea journey for enslaved africans to the americas
• new world: term used by europeans for the americas.
• penal colony: settlement where prisoners were sent to serve their sentences
• settlement: a community of people establishing a new home in an area, often involving the colonization of new lands.
• slavery: a system where people are legally owned by others and forced to work without pay or personal freedom.
• squatters: european settlers in early australia who occupied land without permission, often for farming.
• transatlantic: relating to or involving travel across the atlantic ocean, especially in reference to the transatlantic slave trade.
• triangular trade: trade system involving europe, africa, and the americas.