Across
- 3. Small, fast and highly maneuverable ship of the Portuguese
- 4. Body's ability to resist or fight off a disease
- 7. Spanish soldier and explorer who came to the Americas
- 8. Religious movement in 1500s that challenged Catholic Church
- 13. Tool used by sailors to determine their location
- 14. Large fleet of ships, usually used for war
- 16. Series of religious wars fought between Christians and Muslims
- 17. Sail all the way around the world or an entire landmass
- 20. Type of Native American community
Down
- 1. Branch of Christianity that began during Reformation
- 2. Fort built by the Spanish to protect settlements and missions
- 5. System where a country tries to gain wealth by controlling trade and valuable resources
- 6. Person who rents land from a landowner and farms it
- 9. Sea route through North America that connected Atlantic to Pacific
- 10. State of being separated from other regions, peoples or influences
- 11. Point of land that sticks out into the sea
- 12. Ideas, art, literature or learning from Greece and Rome
- 15. Period in Europe of renewed interest in art, science, learning and classical ideas
- 18. Religious settlement built by Spanish colonists
- 19. Territory or settlement controlled by a distant country