World History "Dessert" Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. The Italian explorer who headed the expedition
  2. 7. Payments made by one nation to ensure protection by another
  3. 8. A Spanish catholic community created to christianize and hispanize natives
  4. 9. With so many natives dead, the Spanish needed an alternative to native slave labor
  5. 12. Aztec emperor who reigned during the Spanish conquest of Tenochtitlan
Down
  1. 1. A term used to refer to the soldiers and explorers of Spanish or Portuguese Empires in a general sense
  2. 3. A region where North and South America meet, and now includes modern day countries such as Guatemala and Mexico
  3. 4. Land awarded to people from the King/Queen
  4. 5. System where people trade goods for other goods
  5. 6. His expedition was to find the 7-cities of gold
  6. 10. The original destination of the expedition
  7. 11. A highly contagious disease brough to the Americas by the Europeans (a lot have died from this disease)