Spanish Colonization #2
Across
- 3. settlements run by Catholic priests whose goal was to convert Indians
- 5. explorer who traveled through Florida in 1513
- 6. legendary place believed to keep people young forever
- 9. three motivations for Spanish exploration and settlement of the Americas
- 10. conquistador who searched for seven cities of gold in the southwestern borderlands
- 11. public square in the middle of a pueblo
Down
- 1. missions here stretched from San Diego to San Francisco
- 2. towns in New Spain
- 4. the first permanent European settlement in what would become the United States
- 5. forts where soldiers lived in Spanish America
- 7. the northern part of the Spanish empire in America
- 8. area spanning present-day southern US from Florida to California