Latin America Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. - Organized armed forces used to enforce political control, suppress rebellions, or fight wars.
  2. 4. - The historical process where American colonies won freedom from European rule.
  3. 6. - Powerful criminal networks controlling the production and trafficking of illegal drugs.
  4. 7. - A Spanish colonial labor system granting land and indigenous workers to settlers.
  5. 9. - The regional system of trade, production, and resource extraction across the Americas.
  6. 10. - Vast, fertile agricultural grasslands located primarily in Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil.
  7. 14. - Spanish explorers and soldiers who conquered indigenous civilizations in the Americas.
  8. 15. - The allocation of capital or resources to develop colonial industries and infrastructure.
Down
  1. 1. - Small, independent armed groups using ambush tactics to fight larger military forces.
  2. 3. - The severe wealth and social gaps created by the colonial caste system.
  3. 5. - A large landed estate or plantation owned by wealthy Spanish elites.
  4. 8. - Spanish-born citizens living in the American colonies, holding the highest social rank.
  5. 11. - A forced indigenous labor system used by Spain to mine silver.
  6. 12. - A Bolivian city home to the world's largest colonial silver mine.
  7. 13. - A US policy opposing European colonialism and intervention in the Western Hemisphere.