Explorers

2. a Christian sacrament signifying spiritual cleansing and rebirth
7. the transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Americas and Europe, Asia, and Africa
10. Taking control of a people or place through military force
11. A Spanish conqueror of the Americas
13. An Italian navigator who was funded by the Spanish Government to find a passage to the Far East. He is given credit for discovering the "New World," even though at his death he believed he had made it to India. He made four voyages to the "New World." The first sighting of land was on October 12, 1492, and three other journies until the time of his death in 1503.

1. First bishop of Chiapas, in southern Mexico. He devoted most of his life to protecting Amerindian peoples from exploitation. His major achievement was the New Laws of 1542, which limited the ability of Spanish settlers to compel Amerindians to labor.
3. Disease spread by Europeans in the Americas. Led to the deaths of millions of Native Americans in North and South America
4. Deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group
5. a period of European exploration and discovery that lasted from about 1418 to
6. a member of an American Indian people of southern Arizona and northern Mexico
8. Spanish priest who set up 8 missions in Arizona
9. physical process whereby the colonizer takes over another place, putting its own government in charge and either moving its own people into the place or bringing in indentured outsiders to gain control of the people and the land
12. the group of people that were present in the Americas prior to the arrival of Europeans