Across
- 3. Italian explorer/His return to Europe in 1295 sparked a European interest in finding a quicker route to Asia
- 12. New World conqueror who crushed the Inca civilization in Peru
- 13. After the Middle Ages there was a rebirth of culture in Europe
- 14. Developed to gather the savings from middle class to support finance colonies
- 15. The idea developed during N. America colonial times that the Spanish Destroy
- 16. The race of people that created when the Spanish intermarried with the surviving Indians in Mexico
- 17. Builders of the Ohio River and the Mississippian culture of the lower Midwest
- 19. Spanish conquistador/explored in 1540's from Florida west to the Mississippi with 600 men searching for gold
Down
- 1. A Spanish solider and commander/led an expedition N. from Mexico into Arizona
- 2. An Italian navigator who was funded by the Spanish Gov't to find a passage to the Far East
- 4. Lived in the SW states/built irrigation systems to water corn/houses made of adobe
- 5. Spanish explorer/explored Florida thinking it was an island
- 6. Spanish explorers that invaded Central & S. America for it's riches during the 1500's
- 7. He was a Spanish explorer who conquered the Native American civilization of the Aztecs in 1519 in what is now Mexico
- 8. Encountered Cortes and the Spanish and saw that they rode horses
- 9. "Invincible" group of ships sent by King Philip II of Spain to Invade England in 1588
- 10. The Pope divided the land of the South America for them
- 11. geological shape of N. America/10 million years ago
- 18. Native American Empire who lived in Mexico/worshiped everything especially the sun