Exploration and Cultural Encounters

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Across
  1. 4. the exchange of diseases, ideas, food, crops, and populations between the New World and the Old World
  2. 7. a conflict between France and Great Britain that began in 1754
  3. 8. determines latitude
  4. 11. a language that forms from the blending of two or more languages
  5. 12. Latin American officials from Spain or Portugal
  6. 13. Capital of the Aztec empire, later Mexico City
  7. 14. contagious disease caused by the variola virus
  8. 17. gave the Spanish settlers the right to get the indigenous peoples of the Americas to work in the mines or fields
  9. 18. children of Spanish and native parentage
  10. 19. Large sub-Saharan African kingdom in the fifteenth century
  11. 21. helped with navigation/direction
  12. 24. Spanish courts in Latin America
Down
  1. 1. individuals born of indigenous and African parents
  2. 2. The one-fifth of Mexican and Peruvian silver production that was reserved for the Spanish monarchy
  3. 3. Syncretic religion practiced by enslaved Africans in Haiti
  4. 5. a trade between European and African slavers
  5. 6. place to produce cash crops
  6. 9. Trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas
  7. 10. first indigenous peoples from the Americas to come into contact with Christopher Columbus
  8. 15. founded her own Christian movement, taught that Jesus was from the Kongo
  9. 16. navigational instrument for determining time of day and year
  10. 20. Nahua woman who acted as interpreter and advisor for Hernan Cortes
  11. 22. Large Latin American estates
  12. 23. West African kingdom founded in the thirteenth century