European Explorers

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Across
  1. 7. one of the main items that the French wanted in trade from the Natives
  2. 8. spanish priest that advocated for the rights of the Natives
  3. 9. often did not marry or have children with the natives because they immigrated with their families
  4. 12. founded the lost city of Roanoke in North Carolina
  5. 13. often formed alliances with the natives and maintained strong relationships with them
  6. 15. conquered the Inca in Peru
  7. 16. brought on by harsh efforts to Christianize the natives, Spanish were driven from the area
  8. 17. assisted the Queen in attacking Spanish Ships for their gold, followed and harassed them in Peru
  9. 18. explored the Mississippi Basin and named it Louisiana after King Louis XIV
  10. 19. laws that temporarily ended Indian slavery and the encomienda system
  11. 20. debate over the rights and humanity of the Natives
  12. 22. spanish had to pay a tax to import African slaves
  13. 23. rigid hierarchy of class standing in South America with Spaniards at the top and Natives at the bottom
  14. 24. often had children with the natives creating a complex and rigid caste system
Down
  1. 1. government granted private company, attempted to control the region for economic gain
  2. 2. founded Quebec
  3. 3. explored in 1673 by Louis Jolliet and Father Jacques Marquette
  4. 4. explored areas around NY Harbor
  5. 5. brought over by the Spanish, wiped out most of the Natives in South America
  6. 6. explored Newfoundland
  7. 10. conquered the aztecs in Mexico
  8. 11. traveled through the Isthmus of Panama
  9. 14. King of Spain gave land to Spaniards, had natives work the mines
  10. 21. looking for a Westward passage to Asia, discovered the Hudson River