Columbian Exchange

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. A mass of precious metal (7)
  2. 4. The state of being under the control of another person (7)
  3. 6. Continent that includes France and Italy (6)
  4. 7. An illness that harms the body (7)
  5. 10. Tall tropical southeast Asian grass having stout fibrous jointed stalks (9)
  6. 11. A newly established colony (10)
  7. 12. An economic system to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's (12)
  8. 13. An acute and highly contagious viral disease marked by distinct red spots followed by a rash (7)
  9. 15. Involving the entire earth (6)

Down

  1. 1. A group's customs, art and way of life (7)
  2. 2. Involving the entire earth (9)
  3. 5. A republic in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula (8)
  4. 8. Largest continent on Earth (4)
  5. 9. An economic system based on private ownership of ___ (10)
  6. 12. Aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century (6)
  7. 14. The capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership (plural) (6)