Chapter 2 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. an agreement between parties that benefits them both
  2. 4. a narrow passage that connects two large bodies of water
  3. 6. Columbus an Italian explorer who sailed for Spain and landed in the Caribbean islands when looking for a route to Asia
  4. 11. a land grant given by the Spanish government that included the right to demand labor or taxes from Native Americans
  5. 12. Cortés a conquistador who conquered the Aztecs in 1520
  6. 14. passage a hypothetical sea route from the Atlantic to the Pacific that passed through or around North America
  7. 16. a system that held that colonies existed to make the home country wealthy and powerful
  8. 18. Marquette a French missionary who explored the Mississippi River
  9. 19. Núñez de Balboa a Spanish colonist who was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean
  10. 20. Cabot an Italian explorer who disappeared while on his second voyage to find a northern route to Asia
Down
  1. 1. a Spanish colonist who was born in Spain
  2. 2. a large farm worked by laborers who lived on the property
  3. 5. Magellan a Portuguese explorer who found an Atlantic-Pacific passage. He was the first to circumnavigate the world.
  4. 6. to travel all the way around
  5. 7. Hudson an English explorer who attempted to find a northwest passage
  6. 8. de Champlain a French explorer who established the settlement of Quebec
  7. 9. de bois independent traders who lived among the Indians (French term for “runners of the woods”)
  8. 10. the Aztec leader who tried to turn Cortés away from Tenochtitlán
  9. 13. Spanish soldier-adventurers
  10. 15. de Las Casas^a Spanish priest who worked for reform of the encomienda system
  11. 17. a religious settlement