Colonialism Crossword 2025

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Across
  1. 2. He was an Englishman who wrote about how Native Americans behaved like devil worshippers with their special abilities - like seeing far away
  2. 5. This was the story written by De Las Casas, that convinced Europeans to abandon Native slavery at the cost of African slavery instead
  3. 8. These South Americans were defeated by the Spanish, losing their entire empire
  4. 9. This English Caribbean colony started with tobacco and indentured servants but quickly moved to sugar, using African slaves
  5. 10. This now-American city was once the most important city of the Dutch New Netherlands
  6. 11. They started in Acadia, where they developed the fur trade
  7. 13. This colony was the English's first cash crop venture, resulting in the growth of the English tobacco trade
  8. 14. These set up encomiendas, forcing Native Americans to work like serfs
  9. 16. He wrote about the horrors of the Middle Passage, being a slave who suffered it
  10. 17. This was the 700 year war fought by Iberians to take the land from Islamic rule
  11. 19. This was the Spanish king who granted Columbus permission to explore
Down
  1. 1. This African kingdom became quite wealthy selling slaves to the Portugese
  2. 2. He was the Inca who wrote a book against Spanish rule in South America, describing them as devils and bad Christians
  3. 3. This was the Portuguese king who was responsible for Portugal's exploration of Africa
  4. 4. This was the conquistador who conquered the Aztecs
  5. 6. This was an important slave colony for the Spaniards and a central point of rule during the early colonial period
  6. 7. These Europeans were the explorers of the African coast, setting up slave factories
  7. 12. These colonies were formed for the purpose of religious isolation
  8. 15. He was the king of the Kongo people, converting them to Catholicism while selling slaves
  9. 18. These Mesoamericans were defeated by the Spanish, losing their entire empire