European Conquest in the Americas

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Across
  1. 3. Another name for the Caribbean region
  2. 4. People were taken from this continent and forced to work as enslaved labor in the Americas
  3. 7. The first European Explorer to enter the Western Hemisphere
  4. 9. A native woman who helped the Spanish conquerors
  5. 10. A term given to Spanish governors of the Spanish provinces
  6. 11. One of the many Native American people of the Western Hemisphere
  7. 13. One of the four major European countries that claimed land in the Americas
Down
  1. 1. Large farms that relied on slave labor to grow sugar cane, cotton or rice
  2. 2. The largest city in the Spanish colonies
  3. 5. Mopriestsd priest sent to the Americas to convert the Native people to Christianity
  4. 6. A system that allowed Spanish colonists to force labor from Native people
  5. 8. People who have a mixed culture of Native American and European cultures
  6. 12. Conquerors of Native Americans following the arrival of Christopher Columbus