Across
- 3. religious reason explorers conquered lands for
- 7. spice heavily traded by spain
- 8. exchange of plants, animals, people, diseases, food, technology, and culture
- 11. Spanish conquistador who took down the Aztecs
- 12. Bacon's ____________ which was over Native American land wanted by farmers
- 14. land grants that included the right to demand labor or taxes from Native Americans
- 16. place Columbus thought he reached (Indians)
- 17. Country competing with Spain for land
Down
- 1. elected representatives who met in an assembly and made laws for the colonies
- 2. explorer who is credited for circumnavigating the earth
- 4. area settled and ruled by the government of a distant land
- 5. servants who worked until they paid off the cost of their voyage
- 6. resource used for wealth
- 7. Explorer who sailed to the West Indies and North America
- 9. legal document giving certain rights to a person or company
- 10. Spanish conquerors of central and South America
- 11. Many explorers searched for a trade route to this country
- 13. Group who first settled parts of Canada
- 15. brave explorers often got this honor