Spanish Colonization #2

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