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3. economic system characterized by private property, generally free trade, and open and accessible markets.
6. spanish explorer who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima
10. reform minded Spanish missionary who worked to abolish the encomienda system and documented the mistreatment of Indians in the Spanish colonies
11. Fought between Spaniards under Don Juan de Onate and the Pueblo Indians in present day New Mexico
12. Spanish government's policy to commend or give Indians to certain colonists in return for the promise to Christianize them
15. people of mixed Indian and European heritage, notably in Mexico
16. signed by Spain and Portugal, dividing the territories of the New World
17. Mississippian settlement near preset day East St. Louis, homes to as many as 25,000 Natives
20. Describes those societies in which political legitimacy and authority overlay a large degree of cultural commonality.
22. Native American empire that controlled present day Mexico until 1521, used human sacrifices
23. false notion that Spanish conquerors did little but butcher the Indians and steal their gold in the name of Christ
24. First part of the North American landmass to emerge above sea level

1. 16th century Spaniards who fanned our across the Americas, conquering the Aztec and Incan Empires
2. King and queen of a united Spain after centuries of Islamic domination
4. A large scale agricultural enterprise growing commercial crops and usually employing coerced or slave labor
5. Genoese explorer who stumbled upon the West Indies in 1492 while in search of a new water route to Asia
7. the transfer of goods, crops, and diseases between New and Old World societies after 1492
8. Indian slave woman who was an interpreter for Hernan Cortez on his conquest of the Aztecs
9. agricultural system employed by North American Indians as early as 1000 AD
13. Pueblo Indian rebellion that drove Spanish settlers from New Mexico
14. sad night when the Aztecs attacked Hernan Cortes and his forces in the Aztec capital killing hundreds.
18. Spanish soldier and commander who led an expedition north from Mexico into Arizona
19. small vessel with high decks and three triangular sails
21. Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico