European Conquests and Colonies

2. The right to demand labor or tribute from American Indians in a particular area.
5. People who lived in villages and grew corn, yarns, and cotton, which they wove into cloth.
6. The first permanent English colony and was also where the Pilgrims landed in 1620.
8. Officially ended the worldwide war and ensured British dominance in North America.
9. Workers forced to labor for a landlord in order to pay off a debt
10. People of American Indian and European ancestry.
12. English Protestants who rejected the Church of England.
14. A relationship in which people agree to work together
15. The American Indians who lived in Brazil and had been largely wiped out by disease.
17. A landowner in Cuba, heard of Spanish expeditions that Indians had repelled.
19. People born in Spain and who were also at the top of the Spanish colonial society.
20. A leader in the Spanish conquest of America, Mexico, and Peru in the sixteenth century.
22. A young woman who served as Cortés’s translator
23. Casas The person who urged colonists to import enslaved people from Africa to use as workers.
24. The ninth Aztec emperor of Mexico
25. War A war that is fought between groups of people in the same nation
26. An Inca emperor who was executed during the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire

1. Dutch, English, and French people who preyed on treasure ships from the Americas.
3. American-born descendants of Spanish settlers who owned most of the plantations, ranches, and mines.
4. Spanish conquistador known for his expeditions that led to the fall of the Inca Empire
7. A Catholic nun who defended women’s right to learn and was recognized as an important writer.
11. Resistance to keep from being affected by a disease
13. The first college founded in the 13 English colonies
16. An agreement among people
18. The person who established a colony in Quebec.
21. The capital of the Aztec empire