European Colonization Review

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Across
  1. 4. Spanish explorer who defeated the Aztec Empire
  2. 9. Valuable animal whose furs were traded in New France
  3. 10. Deadly disease brought by Europeans that killed millions of Indigenous people
  4. 13. European colonization often sought gold, glory, and ____________
  5. 14. Exchange of plants, animals, people, and diseases between Europe and the Americas
  6. 17. Spanish king who supported Columbus’s voyages
  7. 18. Forced labor system that included both Indigenous people and Africans in European colonies
  8. 21. Indigenous group Columbus first encountered in the Caribbean
  9. 22. European nation that focused on fur trade and Catholic missions in Canada
  10. 23. People who traveled to spread Christianity to Indigenous groups
  11. 24. Native peoples lost much of this due to colonization
Down
  1. 1. Spanish conquerors of Indigenous empires
  2. 2. European country that created New Netherland before losing it to the English
  3. 3. French term meaning “runners of the woods,” fur traders who worked with Indigenous people
  4. 5. Word carved into a wooden post at the Lost Colony
  5. 6. A group of territories or nations under one ruler, often expanded by conquest
  6. 7. Italian explorer who sailed west in 1492 for Spain
  7. 8. Powerful empire in Mexico conquered by the Spanish
  8. 11. Spanish queen who sponsored Columbus
  9. 12. Plant brought from the Americas to Europe that became highly popular
  10. 13. Precious metal Spain sought in the Americas
  11. 15. The ocean crossed by explorers and colonists
  12. 16. The movement of Europeans to the New World was partly to gain _____________
  13. 19. English colony that mysteriously disappeared in the late 1500s
  14. 20. Indigenous empire conquered by Pizarro in Peru
  15. 22. European nation that focused on fur trade and Catholic missions in Canada