Unit 1: Exploration & Colonization

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Across
  1. 3. The exchange of animal furs between Native Americans and European settlers
  2. 8. Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs
  3. 9. An economic system focused on increasing a nation's wealth through trade and colonization
  4. 10. A labor system where Spanish settlers controlled indigenous labor and tribute
  5. 13. A direct water route that explorers hoped to find from the Americas to Asia
  6. 14. A fleet of Spanish warships
  7. 16. A settlement of people living in a new territory controlled by the home country
  8. 17. French land around the Mississippi River named after King Louis XIV
  9. 18. First representative assembly in the colonies
  10. 19. Spanish explorers
  11. 20. Large farms that used enslaved workers to grow crops
Down
  1. 1. a boundary line dividing newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal
  2. 2. Goods that are sent out of a country
  3. 4. A 1494 agreement that moved the Line of Demarcation westward to give Portugal more land
  4. 5. Global trade of people, goods, technology, ideas, and diseases that occurred during the 1600s
  5. 6. A Dutch colony that became New York
  6. 7. The first explorer to circumnavigate
  7. 11. Movement that broke away from the Catholic Church and started Protestant churches
  8. 12. The first European explorer to reach the Americas during the Age of Exploration
  9. 15. A small, fast Portuguese ship used during the age of exploration, usually having three sails