Across
- 2. - Organized armed forces used to enforce political control, suppress rebellions, or fight wars.
- 4. - The historical process where American colonies won freedom from European rule.
- 6. - Powerful criminal networks controlling the production and trafficking of illegal drugs.
- 7. - A Spanish colonial labor system granting land and indigenous workers to settlers.
- 9. - The regional system of trade, production, and resource extraction across the Americas.
- 10. - Vast, fertile agricultural grasslands located primarily in Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil.
- 14. - Spanish explorers and soldiers who conquered indigenous civilizations in the Americas.
- 15. - The allocation of capital or resources to develop colonial industries and infrastructure.
Down
- 1. - Small, independent armed groups using ambush tactics to fight larger military forces.
- 3. - The severe wealth and social gaps created by the colonial caste system.
- 5. - A large landed estate or plantation owned by wealthy Spanish elites.
- 8. - Spanish-born citizens living in the American colonies, holding the highest social rank.
- 11. - A forced indigenous labor system used by Spain to mine silver.
- 12. - A Bolivian city home to the world's largest colonial silver mine.
- 13. - A US policy opposing European colonialism and intervention in the Western Hemisphere.