South American History
Across
- 3. a sixteenth-century Spanish adventurer with a small but well-equipped army
- 4. descendants of mixed Indian and European ancestry
- 7. Spaniards or Portuguese
- 9. Political and military leaders who overthrew the government
- 11. a native plant of South America
Down
- 1. Spanish rulers appointed by the king
- 2. a large farm, ranch or country estate
- 5. Persons of Spanish descent born in the West Indies or Latin America
- 6. The name of Easter Island given by the original inhabitants
- 8. the location of the world's largest rain forest
- 10. an Indian group in Latin America before the European explorers arrived