Colonization and Independence Review

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Across
  1. 3. Name of Criollo priest who called for Mexican Independence
  2. 5. Compromises with Spanish leader for Mexican Independence; co-author of Army of Three Guarantees
  3. 6. Casta term for Spanish-Indigenous blood
  4. 8. Term associated the historical period characterized by the use of reason and science
  5. 10. Last name of Spanish conqueror who destroyed the Aztec empire
  6. 11. Assumed leadership of Mexican Independence after the death of its first leader
  7. 12. Casta term for Indigenous person
  8. 13. The New ____ of 1542 was an attempt to protect Natives from Spanish cruelty
  9. 14. Name of the "Mexican Virgin Mary"
  10. 15. Last name of friar who documented the cruelties of the Spanish done upon the Natives
Down
  1. 1. Casta term for a Spaniard born in the New World
  2. 2. Casta term for African/African blood
  3. 4. Spanish word to describe the retreat of Cortes from Tenochtitlan; "La Noche ___"
  4. 6. Name of Indigenous woman who was sold to the Spanish as a slave
  5. 7. Casta term for Spaniard
  6. 9. Land and Labor given by the Spanish crown to Spanish conquerors