Task 3: The Spanish Conquests - Glossary

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Across
  1. 2. Spanish term for conqueror, usually applied specifically to the men who invaded Mexico and Peru
  2. 5. Peninsula where Spain and Portugal are located
  3. 7. Famous for being bad or immoral
  4. 10. At the bottom of Africa
  5. 14. Route of slave ships from Africa to the Americas
  6. 16. Prior to the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Americas in 1492
  7. 18. One of the Indigenous groups under the rule of Aztec Empire
  8. 19. Increase in prices and fall in purchasing power of money
  9. 20. original inhabitants of a place
  10. 21. Brought under control by force
  11. 23. European legal instrument that divided the Americas between Spain and Portugal
  12. 24. More than one deity or god
Down
  1. 1. The trade of raw materials from the Americas to Europe, manufactured goods from Europe to Africa and slaves from Africa to the Americas
  2. 3. Relating to Spain or Spanish-speaking countries
  3. 4. A person of mixed race - Spanish and Indigenous
  4. 6. Sail all the way around (the world in Magellan's case)
  5. 8. Act of settling amongst and establishing control over Indigenous peoples
  6. 9. A belief that natural things can have souls
  7. 11. Two things that are represented as opposites
  8. 12. Draws map
  9. 13. Where the first Spanish settlements were located, island that is now the nations of the Dominican Republic and Haiti
  10. 15. The transfer of plants, animals, diseases and people between the Americas and Asia, Africa and Europe
  11. 17. The Mesoamerican Indigenous group that ruled the Aztec Empire
  12. 22. An economic practice of European colonial powers that used colonies for the benefit of the mother country