the Columbian exchange

3. known as corn
6. a Spanish conquistador, best known for his expeditions that led to the Spanish conquest of Peru.
8. a small, fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship of the 15th–17th centuries.
10. a perennial tropical grass with tall stout jointed stems from which sugar is extracted
12. the largest federally recognized tribe in the U.S
13. comes from sugarcane
15. a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them.
17. the ancient past, especially the period before the Middle Ages.
18. a starchy tuber of the plant Solanum tuberosum and is a root vegetable native to the Americas

1. used in marinara sauce
2. About the size of a chestnut, this little fruit is packed with caffeine and have a bitter taste
4. Mesoamerican culture that flourished in central Mexico in the post-classic period from 1300 to 1521
5. Born in Medellin, Spain, to a family of lesser nobility
6. one of the three Spanish ships used by Genoan explorer Christopher Columbus in his first voyage to the West Indies
7. an Italian explorer and navigator who completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean
8. seeds from a small tropical American evergreen tree, from which butter and chocolate are made.
9. a central figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire and in the 15th-century European maritime discoveries and maritime expansion.
11. a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case
14. a Mesoamerican civilization developed by the Maya peoples, and noted for its logosyllabic script—the most sophisticated and highly developed writing system in pre-Columbian Americas
16. the study of past events, particularly in human affairs.