New World Beginnings

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