S.S Latin America Vocab
Across
- 1. a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire
- 4. was emperor of the Aztecs at the time of the Spanish conquest.
- 9. is a left-wing revolutionary political and militant group based in Chiapas, the southernmost state of Mexico.
- 11. originating or occurring naturally in a particular place
- 12. He was the 13th ruler of the Inca empire
- 14. was a Mexican Roman Catholic Priest and a leader of the Mexican War of Independence.
Down
- 1. was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas between the Americas and the Old World in the 15th and 16th centuries
- 2. was the best-known leader of the Haitian Revolution
- 3. was a Venezuelan military and political leader who played a leading role in the establishment of Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Panama as sovereign states, independent of Spanish rule
- 5. a member of a South American Indian people living in the central Andes before the Spanish conquest.
- 6. was an armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro's revolutionary 26th of July Movement and its allies against the authoritarian government of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista
- 7. was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that conquered the Inca Empire.
- 8. the state of being a slave
- 10. a group of people working together to advance their shared political, social, or artistic ideas
- 13. a member of the American Indian people dominant in Mexico before the Spanish conquest of the 16th century.