Across
- 6. A spanish document that allowed Spanish monarchs the ability to convert people on land they claimed
- 8. Leading Spanish men granted land in the
- 9. Illness that aided the Spanish in conquering Native American Empires
- 12. Capital of the Aztec empire
- 13. An economic system based on private ownership and the free exchange of goods
- 15. New kind of ship used by Portugal to trade with Asia
Down
- 1. some type of blood relation or extended family
- 2. Monarch of Spain during the time when the Spanish discovered the New World
- 3. the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence
- 4. Massive empire located in the area of present day central america
- 5. The domination by one nation or group by another nation or group
- 7. Last name of one of the first people to lead a crew to the new world from Spain
- 10. Corn like crop grown mostly by Native American empires in Central and South America
- 11. A social structure based on heredity
- 14. Native Americans that lived in areas like present day Arizona and New Mexico
