Unit Review: Spanish Colonization

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Across
  1. 2. This conquistador was the first to map what is now the Southwest in 1540
  2. 6. The name of the Spanish colony that included New Mexico
  3. 7. Priests sent to the New World to convert natives to Christianity
  4. 8. Tenochtitlan was the capital of their empire.
  5. 11. When a country takes control of another country or region in order to gain its riches and resources
  6. 12. Under this system the Pueblo had to work to build Spanish farms and churches
  7. 14. The movement of food crops, livestock, disease, and people across the Atlantic was called this.
  8. 15. This former slave guided Fray Marcos and other Spaniards north into New Mexico.
  9. 16. You might see Old Man Gloom here.
  10. 17. He wandered in the desert for 8 years after a shipwreck.
Down
  1. 1. Don Diego de Vargas led this in 1692.
  2. 3. Statues to this conquistador might sometimes be missing a foot.
  3. 4. The seven cities of gold were reported to be located here.
  4. 5. He led the Pueblo Revolt of 1680
  5. 9. He "discovered" the Americas while looking for a trade route to Asia
  6. 10. The Great Dying was when natives died because the the spread of what through the Americas?
  7. 13. The trade route and primary travel route that connected Santa Fe to Mexico City
  8. 14. Meaning "conqueror." These soldiers and explorers were sent to the new world seeking gold, god, and glory.