Chapter 2: Empires of The Americas

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Across
  1. 3. First journey by him and his crew to circumnavigate the globe
  2. 5. The name given to the native people that Columbus encountered
  3. 7. The Nina the Pinta and this ship were used by Columbus to reach the new world
  4. 8. Daughter of the Powhatan Chief who played a key role in maintaining peace between the British and Powhatans
  5. 11. First successful British colony in America started in 1607
  6. 14. saved the jamestown colony by encountering the natives and focused the colony on planting tobacco
  7. 16. Aztec ruler of millions of Natives in present day Mexico
  8. 17. Spanish priest and writer who condemned the harsh treatment of the native americans in the spanish colony
  9. 18. A person who is bound for a period of years to someone who paid for their journey to America
Down
  1. 1. professional spanish soldier and conquistador who overthrew the mighty Aztec empire
  2. 2. Spanish rulers who financed Columbus' voyage
  3. 4. He established the colony on Roanoke Island
  4. 6. Explorer who got funding from Spain to finance his 1492 Journey to the Caribbean Islands
  5. 9. Capital city of the Aztec Empire
  6. 10. System set up by Columbus that had the Natives work for the spanish colonists in exchange for religious conversion
  7. 12. Spanish explorer or conquerors
  8. 13. Local Indian tribe encountered by the inhabitants of the Jamestown settlement
  9. 15. European governor appointed to rule conquered colonial lands in the Americas