European Conquest in the Americas
Across
- 4. God who legend said who would return to the Aztecs from the east
- 5. second layer of the Spanish colonized social class
- 8. Capital city of the Aztec empire
- 9. Disease that ravaged the Native people brought by the Spanish
- 11. Native group in control of central Mexico
- 12. Workers forced to labor for a landlord in order to pay off a debt
- 13. Priests and laypeople who went to the Anericans to convert people to Christianity
- 14. another name for pirates who sought to overtake ships coming from the Americans
- 15. Aztech women who was Cortez interpreter seen as a traitor to her people
- 17. confident he would succeed where others couldn’t
- 18. people of Native American and European descent in Spanish colonial social class
Down
- 1. King of the Aztec people
- 2. professional soldiers, had patrons
- 3. People of African and European decent in Spanish colonial social class
- 6. the right granted by Spanish to the conquistadors demand labor or contribute
- 7. worshipping more than one god
- 10. Top level of the Spanish colonial social class
- 12. South America country on the Pacific coast
- 16. Representatives who vulled over the lands owned by Spain in the Americans
- 19. Largest civilization of Native Americans, largest empire in peru