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Grade 7 Social Studies: Colonial Empires & Atlantic World
1.
a territory controlled by a distant ruling power
2.
a state that controls multiple territories or peoples
3.
network linking Europe, Africa, and the Americas through trade and colonization
4.
economic idea that colonies exist to benefit the home country's wealth
5.
Answers vary: shipping routes, forced labor, resource extraction, trade monopolies
6.
organized way people were made to work, including harmful forced systems in colonies
7.
colonizers, Indigenous peoples, and enslaved Africans experienced empire differently
8.
Answers vary: sugar, tobacco, silver, furs, timber
9.
territory controlled by a distant ruling power
10.
idea colonies exist to benefit home country wealth
11.
network linking Europe, Africa, Americas
12.
taking colony resources for ruling power
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