Age of Contact/Spanish Colonial and Mexican National Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 5. A Spanish explorer who searched for wealth in the Americas.
  2. 8. The movement of people from one place to settle in another place.
  3. 9. Spanish official appointed to rule land claimed by Spain in the New World.
  4. 10. State-sponsored settlement of people to new territories.
  5. 11. An agent who makes all the arrangements to bring settlers to a colony.
Down
  1. 1. A journey undertaken by a group of people.
  2. 2. A settlement founded to spread Christianity to the people in the area.
  3. 3. Travel undertaken in order to discover new resources.
  4. 4. An adventurer who engages in private rebellious activity in a foreign country.
  5. 6. The unique cultural blending of Spanish and American traditions in Texas.
  6. 7. A military post or guarded settlement in an area under Spanish control.