17.3 Colonial Latin America

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Across
  1. 1. The Indigenous people of the Caribbean who were the first to encounter Christopher Columbus.
  2. 3. The native language of the Inca people, still spoken by millions in the Andes today.
  3. 4. The last Sapa Inca who was captured and executed by Francisco Pizarro.
  4. 6. The agricultural method of carving "steps" into mountainsides used by the Inca to grow crops.
  5. 8. The process by which a central power settles in and takes control over a distant territory.
  6. 9. A term used in the colonial era to describe a person of mixed Spanish and Indigenous American ancestry.
  7. 12. A large sum of gold and silver paid by the Inca in a failed attempt to free their captured leader.
  8. 13. The powerful central Mexican empire known for its advanced calendar and chinampa farming.
  9. 14. The explorer whose crew completed the first circumnavigation of the globe.
Down
  1. 1. The massive island capital of the Aztec Empire, built on Lake Texcoco.
  2. 2. The Inca city where the Spanish ambushed Atahualpa and his followers.
  3. 5. The Spanish conquistador who led the expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire.
  4. 7. The last major ruler of the Aztec Empire who was captured by the Spanish.
  5. 10. The empire that stretched along the Andes Mountains, famous for its incredible stonework and road systems.
  6. 11. The conquistador who led the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire in South America.