Early America and it's Settlements

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Across
  1. 2. Builders/ Built thousands of mounds out of earth
  2. 5. Columbus/ A explorer who sailed the ocean in 1492 and discovered the New World
  3. 6. League/ The Onondaga, Seneca, Mohawk, Oneida, and Cayuga formed the ____, which was organized by clans, or groups of people related
  4. 7. People who were born in America to Spanish parents
  5. 10. ___ helped the early people because they could grow their own crops and didn't have to move
  6. 11. Netherland/ In 1623 this company took control of the country's North American colony
  7. 12. Armada/ A spanish war fleet
  8. 14. de Champlain/ A explorer who sailed to America in 1603
  9. 15. Ancient peoples who explored America and off course on there way to Greenland and ended up in present day,Canada's labrador
  10. 16. Scientists who study ancient peoples
  11. 17. Age/ A period of time where everything was cold and frozen
  12. 19. A religious community where farming was carried out and Native Americans were converted to Christianity
Down
  1. 1. Passage/ A direct water route through the Americas to Asia
  2. 3. A land bridge
  3. 4. A spanish explorer whose goals were to conquer territories
  4. 6. A water system that Hokokam used
  5. 8. They owned the land and fan the government
  6. 9. People with one Spanish parent and one Native American parent
  7. 13. A theory that a country gains wealth through trade (exporting more than importing) and by acquiring gold and silver
  8. 18. Dwellers/ Built for protection in winters and also to protect the Puebloans from enemy's