Spanish Colonial Period 1/2

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Across
  1. 2. Pizarro arrived in Peru in 1531 and met with the Incan emperor
  2. 4. Incan Emperor
  3. 7. is a widespread outbreak of a contagious disease
  4. 10. was a Spanish policy that granted land and the Indians living on it to Spanish soldiers
  5. 12. is a payment or gift given to show respect
  6. 13. set sail from present-day Cuba to explore today’s Florida
  7. 14. is a contagious and often deadly disease
  8. 15. The study of the universe
Down
  1. 1. He sailed the ocean blue in 1492
  2. 3. African slave
  3. 5. colonists usually as a reward for service
  4. 6. a Spanish word meaning “conquerors”
  5. 8. leader of the Aztec Empire
  6. 9. lived and worked as a farmer in Hispaniola before sailing to the island of Cuba
  7. 11. One of four survivors traveled along the southern coast of what is now the United States