Across
- 3. A group of people native to America
- 5. The planter elite that dominated Venezuela under Spanish rule
- 6. A group of people belonging to the planter elite that were born in Spain
- 9. Conquered Spain in 1808, providing Venezuelan revolutionaries with a window of opportunity
- 10. A population of combined Native American and European ancestry
Down
- 1. The hacendados main export; helped them achieve preeminence
- 2. A group dictatorship
- 4. Period of disease and death brought to the criollos by the Europeans
- 7. A wealthy criollo that was influenced by the European writers of the Enlightenment; travelled to Europe and brought back Francisco de Miranda
- 8. Ruled Venezuela as a colony