Across
- 2. Towns served as trading posts and sometimes as centers of local government.
- 7. northern Mexico, Florida and parts of present day CA, NM, and Texas.
- 8. written permission to form a colony
- 9. Spanish soldiers who brought the spirit of Reconquista America.
- 11. He helped begin a movement to change the Catholic Church's practices.
- 12. an increase in prices
- 13. military settlements
- 14. a narrow sea passage
- 15. a group of English sailors
Down
- 1. large farms that specialize in one crop
- 3. small sturdy ship made to be fast and easy to manage
- 4. settlement started by the Catholic church to convert American Indians to Christianity
- 5. having sole control
- 6. to sail completely around the earth
- 10. An ancient invention used to chart the position of the stars