New Mexico History Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 1. agave plant
  2. 3. spirts of ancestors
  3. 7. served as the kinds agent
  4. 11. ancestral descent through the father
  5. 13. located latitude according to the position of the stars
  6. 14. building material made by mixing water with soil
  7. 16. settlers were given Indians to oversee, in return the settlers served the Spanish rulers
  8. 18. more than one god
  9. 21. Spaniards who conquered much of the Americas
  10. 23. religious room
  11. 24. huts built around an oval-shaped frame
  12. 27. Navajo medicine man
  13. 31. in charge of all church matters
  14. 32. Spanish towns
  15. 33. spear throwing device
  16. 34. Spanish word for "town"
  17. 35. wanderers, no permanent homes
Down
  1. 1. ancestral descent through the mother
  2. 2. areas that flat and treeless
  3. 4. Pueblo Indians who left New Mexico
  4. 5. community of Indians who were supposed to obey the mission priest
  5. 6. Spanish word for "buffalo cow"
  6. 8. water that is on top of the earth's surface
  7. 9. early people with settled permanent homes
  8. 10. broad,dry drainage areas
  9. 12. town council
  10. 15. areas that have similar climates, plants, and animals
  11. 17. long periods without rainfall
  12. 19. under direct control of Spain's rulers
  13. 20. group of blood relatives
  14. 22. artificial watering of crops
  15. 25. living patterns, customs, and skills of a given people at a given time.
  16. 26. elevated area of mostly flat or level land
  17. 28. Navajo house
  18. 29. kings permission for a person to settle new lands
  19. 30. marriage to one person