Colonizing North America

4. The great Aztec and Incan Empires were conquered by these Europeans
5. Settlements run by Catholic priests and friars
6. By the late 1500s England and the Netherlands were largely followers of
7. The paying for forgiveness of one's sins
8. He had the idea that Africans be brought as slaves to replace forced Indian laborers
11. a shorter waterway through or around North America
16. Also known as "runners of the woods" they were French colonists who lived in the woods
19. He built a trading post on the St. Lawrence River known as Québec
20. Verrazano and Cartier explored for this country
21. In 1605 this was the first French settlement in North America
22. Another name for conquerer
23. A fort where Spanish soldiers lived

1. Small towns on Spanish settlements
2. in Spain's American colonies, A person of mixed Spanish and Indian background
3. Explorer An English explorer who has a river named for him and who explored for the Dutch
5. He was a German monk who posted 95 Theses or arguments against the Church in 1517 in Wittenberg, Germany
6. A social class in New Spain that held the highest jobs in government and the Church
9. By the late 1500s, Spain and France were ruled by monarchs who practiced this religion
10. One reason the Spanish colonized the Americas was to spread their __ beliefs
12. An area of land granted to a Spanish settler with the legal permission to demand labor or taxes from Native Americans
13. The followers of Martin Luther who protested against the Catholic Church
14. Large numbers of Native Americans died from this European disease
15. A Spanish explorer who tried to find the "seven cities of gold"
17. The Aztec emperor who ruled much of Mexico
18. A person born in Spain's American colonies to Spanish parents