Across
- 5. Guided the economic policies of virtually all European nation-states in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
- 9. Developed a network of paved roads to unite their population
- 10. this class emerged in Europe to bring goods from distant regions
- 14. Early Spanish explorers in the Americas.
- 16. Puritans who were considered radicals
- 17. Destroyed a large Native American empire with only 600 men
- 18. His crew circumnavigated the globe
- 19. Forged close bonds with Native Americans
- 20. Named Virginia in honor of Queen Elizabeth
- 21. Europeans imported most of their African slaves from this region south of the Sahara Desert
- 22. The Spanish settlement in New Mexico was nearly destroyed by a revolt from this tribe in 1680
- 23. Took possession of Newfoundland in the queen's name
Down
- 1. staged successful raids on Spanish merchant ships
- 2. Developed a harsh religion requiring human sacrifice.
- 3. Actively encouraged settlement from northern Europe in their colonies
- 4. Opened the way for advances into South America
- 6. Hope of locating this motivated many explorers to North America
- 7. English assumptions made from colonizing here influenced how they treated natives in the Americas
- 8. The most common Spanish settlement in the early seventeenth century
- 11. explored the Caribbean and the coast of South America
- 12. The natives of this region in North America created large irrigation systems
- 13. First European state to invest in maritime exploration
- 14. A reawakening in this occurred in this in Europe in the fifteenth century
- 15. Decimated Native American population, and partially responsible for fall of Aztec Empire
- 20. Location of two failed English settlements
