Unit 7: MesoAmerica/Age of Exploration & Expansion

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Across
  1. 4. a system allowing the Spanish to force (draft) native laborers to work in silver mines
  2. 5. a leader in the Spanish conquest of America
  3. 9. a large agricultural estate
  4. 10. Passage the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas
  5. 11. to be composed or made up of
  6. 12. Iroquois house built of wood poles covered with sheets of bark and housing a dozen families
  7. 14. corn
  8. 15. a person of European descent born in the New World and living there permanently
  9. 16. a person of mixed African and European descent
Down
  1. 1. a person born on the Iberian Peninsula; someone of Spanish or Portuguese descent
  2. 2. economic thought that said the prosperity of a nation depended on a large supply of gold and silver
  3. 3. a small, fast, maneuverable ship that could carry a large amount of cargo
  4. 6. a person of mixed European and native American Indian descent
  5. 7. system of knotted strings used by Inca for keeping records
  6. 8. system of labor the Spanish used in the Americas involving Native American laborers
  7. 13. circular tent made by stretching buffalo skins over wooden poles
  8. 15. a settlement of people in a new territory, linked with a parent company by trade and direct government control