Spanish Colonial Period

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Across
  1. 3. - an artisan who creates santos y revueltos and other Spanish-style religious artwork.
  2. 5. - descendants of both captive Indian peoples and their Spanish captors in New Mexico.
  3. 7. grant system - a labor system in which the Spanish crown authorized Spaniards, known as encomenderos, to enslave native people to farm and mine in the Americas.
  4. 12. - the process or business of obtaining coal or other minerals from the Earth.
  5. 13. - a grant of forced labor (as for use in agriculture, in mining, or in construction) imposed on Indigenous inhabitants.
  6. 14. system - a class structure that is determined by birth. Loosely, it means that in some societies, the opportunities you have access to depend on the family you happened to be born into.
  7. 15. Camino Real - a 600-mile commemorative route connecting the 21 Spanish missions in California, along with a number of sub-missions, four presidios, and three pueblos.
Down
  1. 1. - a person in charge of a group or project: an overseer of an irrigation system
  2. 2. system - the mission system involved three major institutions - the mission itself, the presidio, and the pueblo. The mission was much more than a simple chapel building in which religious services and training were conducted.
  3. 4. - one of the officers charged with the government of a Spanish or Latin American.
  4. 6. systems - irrigation canals designed to share water for agriculture in dry land.
  5. 8. - practice of cultivating the soil,producing crops, and raising livestock and in varying degrees the preparation and marketing of the resulting products.
  6. 9. - a town council or a town hall in a country formerly a Spanish colony.
  7. 10. - a devotional painting, especially a small popular or folk art one using iconography derived from traditional Catholic church art. Artistic painting.
  8. 11. of New Spain - a local, political, social, and administrative institution, created by the Spanish monarchy in the sixteenth century, for ruling its overseas territories.