Across
- 3. 1680 pueblo Indian uprising that drove Spanish settlers from New Mexico
- 6. explorer who stumbled upon the West Indies in 1492 in search of a new route to Asia
- 8. reform minded Spanish missionary who worked to abolish the encomienda system
- 10. Mississippian settlement near present-day East St. Louis
- 12. first part of the North American landmass to emerge above sea level
- 13. false notion that Spanish conquistadores did little but butcher the Indians and steal their gold in the name of Christ
Down
- 1. 1494 treaty signed by Spain and Portugal that divided the New World territories
- 2. 16th century Spaniards who fanned out across the Americas eventually conquering the Aztec and Inca Empires
- 4. transfer of goods, crops, and disease between the Old and New World
- 5. Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs
- 7. people mixed with Indian and European heritage, notably in Mexico
- 9. Spanish labor/economic system in which natives would be given to Spanish colonists in exchange for for the promise to Christianize them
- 11. small vessel with a high deck and three sails; allowed European sailors to explore the western shores of Africa previously made impossible by prevailing winds