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Across
  1. 4. The motivation to explore the New World or North America.
  2. 6. Spanish explorer who was shipwrecked in Texas for six years and lived as a slave, shaman, healer, and trader.
  3. 10. Country that established the fur trade in North America.
  4. 11. Spanish explorer who searched for several years for the seven cities of gold and silver.
  5. 12. A city built by Cortes on the ruins of the Aztec Empire capital.
  6. 13. The river La Salle was sailing to when he missed and landed in Texas.
Down
  1. 1. The phrase used to describe North America.
  2. 2. Spanish explorer who mapped the Gulf of Mexico in 1519.
  3. 3. Spanish explorer that conquered the Aztecs in 1519 and never went to Texas.
  4. 5. Salle French explorer who missed the Mississippi built a fort in Texas and was killed by his soldiers.
  5. 7. The people conquered by Hernan Cortes.
  6. 8. The name for the seven cities of gold and silver.
  7. 9. 800 year era when Spanish Christians fought to reconquer Spain from the African Moors.
  8. 11. Sailed for the Spanish to find a shortcut to Asia in 1492 and failed by discovering North America.
  9. 14. The country where most of the explorers in Texas originated from.