Across
- 4. people of mixed Spanish and African ancestry
- 7. famous navigation tool
- 10. triangular sail invented in the Mediterranean
- 11. companies that privately funded exploration voyages
- 12. Spanish born elites in the Americas
- 14. the Spanish colonies' main export
- 15. the treatment of humans as property
Down
- 1. Rulers who consolidated their power till the point of complete control over their country
- 2. first successful British colony in the Americas
- 3. the transfer of animals, plants, and diseases between Europe and the Americas
- 5. Firearms used in the Spanish conquest of the Americas
- 6. largest of the Islamic gunpowder empires
- 8. Islamic gunpowder empire based in India
- 9. Dutch trading ship
- 13. the disease that wiped out 50% of natives in south America