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