Across
- 2. Under this system the Pueblo had to work to build Spanish farms and churches
- 4. Priests sent to the new world to convert natives to Christianity
- 5. to trade one thing for another thing
- 8. The name of the Spanish colony that included NM
- 10. The primary building material used in colonial New Mexico
- 14. when a country takes control of another to gain its resources and riches
- 16. The Great Dying was when natives died because this spread through the Americas
- 17. He "discovered" the Americas while looking for a trade route to Asia
- 18. I was lost in the desert for 8 years. I nearly lost my bovine mind.
- 20. You might see Old Man Gloom here.
- 21. The trade route that connected Mexico City to Santa Fe
Down
- 1. An imaginary line marking the furthest extent of settlement
- 3. The movement of food crops, livestock, disease, and people across the Atlantic
- 6. Tenochtitlan was the capital of their empire
- 7. This former slave guided Spaniards north to NM
- 9. Don Diego de Vargas led this in 1692
- 11. He led the expedition to build NM's first permanent settlement at today's EspaƱola
- 12. Soldiers and explorers sent to the new world seeking gold, god, and glory
- 13. Led the Pueblo Revolt of 1680
- 15. northern frontier areas thought to have cities of gold
- 19. This conquistador was the first to map the Southwest in 1540
