Across
- 3. Carta- a charter of liberties signed under duress by King John of England in 1215 that influenced the development of many important modern legal and constitutional principles
- 5. Has a trunk
- 6. Companies- Joint-stock companies allowed investors to pool their wealth in support of a colony that they hoped would yield a profit.
- 8. The action of traveling through an unfamiliar area to learn about it
- 11. Large marsupial
- 12. a person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons.
- 13. a grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indian inhabitants of an area.
- 16. Conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century
- 18. Columbus- an Italian explorer and navigator who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs of Spain
- 20. belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.
- 21. Man's best friend
Down
- 1. a form of government with a monarch at the head.
- 2. Liberty- the liberty of those persons who are free from external
- 4. a person who moves with a group of others to live in a new country or area.
- 7. a legislature similar to parliament in other nations and states.
- 9. Compact- a set of rules for self-governance established by the English settlers who traveled to the New World on the Mayflower
- 10. Led by John Smith and others, the colonists selected a small, defensible peninsula where they established the settlement of Jamestown
- 14. Rights- Rights that people supposedly have under natural law
- 15. the action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area.
- 17. Flying mammal
- 19. Likes to chase mice