The Black Legend, Native Americans, and Spaniards

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Across
  1. 2. The exchange of goods, people, ideas, and diseases between Europe, Africa, and the Americas following Columbus's voyages.
  2. 7. A disease brought by Europeans that devastated Native American populations.
  3. 9. An alliance of Native American tribes in the northeastern United States that was politically and militarily significant.
  4. 10. A worldview that emphasizes European culture and history as central or superior to others.
  5. 11. A Spanish priest who advocated for Native American rights and condemned the abuses of colonization.
  6. 12. A belief system attributing spiritual essence to natural objects, places, and creatures.
Down
  1. 1. The idea that Spanish conquerors were uniquely brutal in their colonization of the Americas.
  2. 3. A labor system where Spanish settlers forced Native Americans to work in exchange for supposed protection and Christianization.
  3. 4. A powerful Mesoamerican civilization conquered by the Spanish in the 16th century.
  4. 5. Spanish explorers and warriors who sought wealth and territory in the Americas.
  5. 6. A vast South American empire defeated by the Spanish in the early 1500s.
  6. 8. A 1680 uprising of Pueblo people against Spanish colonial rule in present-day New Mexico.