Chapter 1 Indigenous America

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  1. 2. An opulent ceremonial feast at which possessions are given away or distroyed to display wealth or enhance prestige
  2. 4. A Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea.
  3. 9. An Italian explorer and navigator who completed four voyages across the Atlantic ocean.
  4. 12. Spanish conquistador, best known for his expeditions that led to the Spanish conquest of Peru.
  5. 13. An Indigenous people of the Caribbean.
  6. 15. A Mesoamerican culture that flourished in central Mexico in the post-classic period from 1300 to 1521.
  7. 17. Was a series of conflicts between the kingdoms of England and France during the Late Middle Ages.
  8. 18. The last fully independent ruler of the Aztec empire before the civilization's collapse after the Spanish Conquest in the early 16th century CE.
  9. 21. A porous racial classification system in colonial New Spain.
  10. 23. Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire.
  11. 24. A Spaniard born in Spain residing in the New World, Spanish East Indies, or Spanish Guinea.
  12. 25. A grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indian inhabitants of an area.
Down
  1. 1. A racial classification used to refer to a person of a combined European and Indigenous American ancestry
  2. 3. A central figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire and in the 15th century European maritime discoveries and maritime expansion.
  3. 5. Large Mexica altepetl in what is now the historic center of Mexico City.
  4. 6. A 16th-century Spanish landowner, friar, priest, and bishop, famed as a historian and social reformer
  5. 7. An Idigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, who live in the United States and Canada.
  6. 8. The exchange of diseases, ideas, food-crops, and populations between the new world and old world.
  7. 10. Realm of the Four Parts.
  8. 11. A modern-day historical park in Collinsville, Illinois, eclosing the sight of the largest pre-Columbian city on the continent of North America.
  9. 14. A centuries-long series of battles by Christian states to expel the Muslins (Moors), who from the 8th century ruled most of the lberian Peninsula.
  10. 16. A term used originally to describe people of Spanish descent born in the colonies
  11. 19. Three important crops: corn, beans, and squash
  12. 20. An ancient astronomical instrument that was a handheld model of the universe.
  13. 22. A man of mixed race, especially one having Spanish and indigenous descent.
  14. 26. A small, fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship of the 15th-17th centuries