Conquest of the New World

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Across
  1. 5. The system that was set up in the New World after conquest, that involved an encomendero taking responsibility for the natives on his land grant
  2. 6. To take advantage of without someone's permission
  3. 7. Full blood Spaniards that were born outside of Spain and received special privileges in the New World
  4. 10. The continents of Africa, Europe, and Asia that were connected by trade networks before 1492
  5. 12. The country that began the exploration of the African coast and focused its conquests in Africa
  6. 15. The continents of North America, South America, and Australia that first came into contact with Europeans beginning in the late 15th century
  7. 16. The people that inhabited the Americas before the Europeans arrived in 1492
  8. 17. The country that Christopher Columbus sailed for beginning in 1492
  9. 18. Directly descended from the Latin language
Down
  1. 1. The process of cultural change undergone after contact with a different culture
  2. 2. Something that is native to a geographic region
  3. 3. The agreement, brokered by the pope in 1513, that divided the world into two areas of conquest for Spain and Portugal
  4. 4. The descendants of a Spaniard and a Native American
  5. 8. The economic system that involved a colony being subjugated to the wishes of the mother country that conquered it
  6. 9. A Spaniard that was given a land grant from the crown in exchange for taking responsibility for forcing the assimilation of the natives that lived on it
  7. 11. The name for the Americas that was conquered by Latinate culture
  8. 13. The ocean to the west of Europe that divided the Old World from the New World
  9. 14. Full blood Spaniards that were born on the Iberian Peninsula and ran the new governments of the New World