Early Settlements
Across
- 1. farming for things you need to survive/things you yourself will use
- 4. In New Spain, a large subsistence farm (a farm growing food and other items used by the people living on the farm)
- 8. A colony controlled by the king and/or queen
- 9. A fortress in New Spain
- 11. A place where religious (Christian)leaders lived and worked
- 12. materials used to make other things (wood, stone, flour, etc.)
- 14. A crop grown to be sold by the farmer, not used by the farm
Down
- 2. A pirate hired by Queen Elizabeth of England to steal goods from Spanish ships leaving the New World
- 3. A settlement far away from the country that owns and rules it
- 5. The New Spain colony built on the ruins of the Aztec city, Tenochtitlán
- 6. A colony that governs itself as long as it makes money for the ruler who grants the charter (permission to start that colony)
- 7. The system conquistadors used to force (non-Christians) Native Americans to work for them
- 10. The areas on the edge of New Spain
- 13. A very large farm for growing cash crops (crops grown to be sold, not used by the farmer)