Across
- 4. Spanish "conquerors" who searched the New World for God, gold, and glory
- 6. shared culture and language ruled by centralized government, political states
- 8. name for the culture of those who were mixed Indians and Europeans
- 14. Spanish explorer who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima
- 17. "sad night" where the Aztecs brutally fought against the Spanish
- 18. Indian slave woman who was an interpreter for Hernan Cortez
- 19. indigenous people group found in Peru
- 20. indigenous people group found in Mexico
- 22. Spanish missionary who worked to abolish the encomienda system
- 23. ship that could sail more closely into the wind
Down
- 1. Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico
- 2. false concept stating that the Spanish butchered the Indians, infected them with smallpox, and left nothing behind
- 3. Indian uprising due to suppressed native religious customs
- 5. beans, corn, and squash planted together in harmony
- 7. 1494 treaty between Spain and Portugal to divide the New World
- 9. occurred when Columbus waded ashore, and the Old Worlds and New Worlds clashed.
- 10. economic system
- 11. large scale commercial agriculture that focused on the exploitation of slave labor
- 12. institution that allowed slavery under the guise of "Christianizing" the Indians through colonists
- 13. A Spanish soldier and commander who led an expedition north from Mexico into Arizona
- 14. became king of a united Spain with his wife Isabella
- 15. zone undergirded by rock, North America
- 16. battle where Spain sentenced young Indians to servitude and mutilation
- 21. place where the Mississippian settlement resided, near modern day St.Louis
- 23. Genoese explorer who stumbled upon the West Indies in 1492