Period 1

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Across
  1. 2. the desire for fame, power, and influence, often achieved through conquest and expansion.
  2. 3. The exchange of people, plants, and animals between Europe, Africa, and North America that occurred after Columbus's arrival in the Western Hemisphere.
  3. 5. he desire for wealth and resources, particularly in the form of gold and other precious metals.
  4. 7. the desire to spread Christianity to new lands and peoples.
  5. 9. Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, conqueror Hernán Cortés named the territory New Spain,New Spain aided in converting the native population to Christianity, developed an array of educational institutions, and oversaw an economy based almost entirely on mining and ranching.
  6. 10. In 1550, the cause of this debate was alarmed by reports of cruel treatment meted out to natives in Spain's South American colonies,It was a moral and theological debate about the conquest of the Americas, its justification for the conversion to Catholicism.
  7. 12. Italian explorer who is credited with discovering the New World in 1492.
  8. 13. 1494 agreement between Spain and Portugal that divided the newly discovered lands of the New World between them.
  9. 14. As early humans began to settle into the US, they had begun to understand the idea of settling permanently around 12000 BC, thus switching from their old way of living of wandering around, into a more permanent living situation that we all know today.
  10. 16. land rights granted by kings in exchange for military service, and protection granted to peasants in exchange for agricultural products.
  11. 17. groups of people who still continued to wander around, beginning in 8500 to 6500 BC, Nomads nerve chose to permanently settle down because of their reliance on moving, they go anywhere with all of their possessions and their communities, in search of resources such as food, building materials, and trading goods.
Down
  1. 1. connected siberia and alaska during the ice age, allowing for early humans to begin to migrate towards the south and into the americas, leading to what we know today as native americans
  2. 4. period from the 1830s towards the end of the Civil War, in which the US and its population began to cultivate new methods of thinking, from new forms of art, to inventions, and morales things were changing in how people viewed, and lived their liv
  3. 6. an economic system that emphasizes private ownership of the means of production and the creation of goods and services for profit.
  4. 8. during the early stages of humans in the americas, had given populations in the US a means of food, and trading resources to give to other neighboring societies in exchange for other necessities, leaving maize to be a very valuable crop in its time.
  5. 11. created by the Spanish to maintain their power and superiority to other racial groups in the colonies,in colonial times to explain mixed race families to those back in Spain.
  6. 15. Was a system where Spanish adventurers and settlers were granted the legal right to extract forced labour from indigenous tribal chiefs in the Americas colonies of the Spanish Empire.Also, permitted the Spanish Crown to convert its invading army of conquistadors into colonial settlers.