European Colonies in the Americas

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Across
  1. 3. Dutch explorer who landed near New York
  2. 6. capital city of the Aztec Empire
  3. 11. Spanish colony ruled by king's representative
  4. 13. the main cash crop grown in Brazil
  5. 14. The French wanted to make money from the ___ trade
  6. 15. Spanish colonist born in the colonies
  7. 17. Spain's fleet of ships whose defeat by the English in 1588 made England the dominant naval power in the Atlantic
  8. 18. Explorer looking for the fountain of youth
  9. 19. Hernando de Soto was the first European to see the _____ River
  10. 20. Cortes' Native American interpreter
  11. 22. Spanish colonists born in Spain
  12. 24. Portugal's main colony in the Americas
  13. 25. Spanish colonial system
Down
  1. 1. Spaniard who conquered the Aztecs
  2. 2. Spain and Portugal signed the treaty of ___
  3. 4. a person of mixed African and European descent
  4. 5. Race and ___ determined one's place on the Spanish colonial hierarchy
  5. 7. Spanish explorer in the New World
  6. 8. theorized way to Asia thru North America
  7. 9. the combining of two or more religions
  8. 10. a person who tries to convert people to their religion
  9. 12. Old World disease that decimated the Aztecs
  10. 16. the last Aztec emperor was ________ II.
  11. 21. a person of mixed Native and European descent
  12. 23. first English explorer to land in N. America