New World Beginnings

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Across
  1. 5. Last of the Aztec rulers
  2. 7. signed in 1494 by Spain and Portugal to divide the territories of the new world
  3. 8. the basic tribal ruling unit of government
  4. 10. reason for the sporadic settlement of and cultural differences between indigenous peoples in the Americas
  5. 11. the transfer of goods, crops, and diseases between new and old world societies after 1492
  6. 13. 16th century Spaniards who fanned out across the Americas eventually conquering the Aztecs and Incas
  7. 14. ship that allowed Europeans to explore the Western coast of Africa
  8. 16. Explorer who stumbled upon the West Indies in 1492 when trying to find a water route to Asia
Down
  1. 1. reform minded Spanish missionary who documented the mistreatment of Native Americans by the Spanish colonies
  2. 2. disease that many Native Americans fell victim to post European contact
  3. 3. otherwise known as Haudenosaunee they were a Native American tribe that lived in longhouses in the Northeast
  4. 4. the first part of the North American land bridge
  5. 6. conquistador that defeated the Aztec Empire
  6. 9. conquistador that defeated the Incan Empire
  7. 12. Native American rebellion in 1680 that drove the Spanish out of New Mexico
  8. 15. one reason why Europeans wanted to find a water route to Asia