The different methods Spain used to protect her monopoly.

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Across
  1. 1. trade with the settlers in the American empire.
  2. 6. Coast guards that patrol the waters against smugglers and other marauders.
  3. 9. Spain ensured that only legally authorized ports could
  4. 10. This was the Spanish Navy responsible for warding off attacks by pirates on the
  5. 12. This would reduce the likelihood of attacks by rival European nations.
Down
  1. 2. Signed between Spain and Portugal in 1494.
  2. 3. Warships used to patrol the seas regularly as well as the shipping lanes in the
  3. 4. treasure ships
  4. 5. This was a collection of merchant ships with an escort of warships.
  5. 7. to the Spanish colonies.
  6. 8. Casa de Contratacion.
  7. 11. Permission given by the Spanish government to other countries to sell