Spanish Conquest of the Aztecs

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Across
  1. 4. The exchange of crops, livestock, ideas and disease between the New World and the rest of the world.
  2. 5. The second most widely spoken language after Mandarin.
  3. 8. The home-grown variety of disease historians think may have impacted the Aztecs.
  4. 9. The disease that decimated the Aztec population.
  5. 12. This animal introduced to the New World transformed livestock practices.
  6. 13. The city of Tenochtitlan became the settlement of ________.
  7. 14. The slave trade was finally abolished in the 19th ____________.
  8. 15. Aztecs continued to worship the old gods in secret.
  9. 17. Priests rapidly converted the Aztecs to this religion.
  10. 19. Another word for maize is ___________.
Down
  1. 1. It is estimated that the Indigenous population dropped from 8 ___________ to 2.6 ______________.
  2. 2. The Spanish settlement where the Taino people did the hard work.
  3. 3. The Spanish were greedy for _______ and silver to ship back to Spain.
  4. 4. Something spicy introduced from the New World.
  5. 6. The native slave labour system.
  6. 7. This native people basically died out from disease and overwork.
  7. 10. An element of Aztec religion that stopped after Christianity was introduced.
  8. 11. The name for the Spanish invaders.
  9. 16. Indigenous peoples such as the Aztecs played an important role bringing ___________ tribes under Spanish control
  10. 17. This delicious treat was brought from the New World.
  11. 18. The Spanish brought heaps of slaves from this continent.