Spain builds and empire

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Across
  1. 3. settlers were supposed to protect the Native Americans and convert them to _______.
  2. 6. Other Native Americans were forced to endure the backbreaking work of mining _____, and Silver.
  3. 7. According to the legend, Ponce de Leon heard that a fountain of _____, whose waters could make old people young again.
  4. 10. The ______ also explored what is now the southwestern United states.
  5. 12. Cabeza da Vaca’s account _____ other explorers to travel to North America
Down
  1. 1. By 1650 the Spanish ____ in the Americas had grown to 3-4 million people.
  2. 2. The catholic _____ also played a major role in the interactions of the Spanish with Native Americans.
  3. 4. The group built boats which made it possible for them to travel around the ______ panhandle.
  4. 5. The Spanish operated many ______, large farms that grew just one kind of crop.
  5. 8. The Spanish treated the Native Americans ______ in their empire.
  6. 9. Spain established the encomienda ______.
  7. 11. By 1511, he had conquered the island for ____ and founded the city of San Juan.