Exploration and Colonization Crossword

Spanish conquerors of the Americas
an area that is controlled by or belongs to a country and is usually far away from it
17th century economic belief that a country's prosperity depended on having a large supply of gold and silver
to bring a product into a country to be sold
large estate farmed by many workers
A crop that is grown to be sold rather than used by the farmer
(also called Gachupin, or Chapeton) any of the colonial residents of Latin America from the 16th through the early 19th centuries who had been born in Spain
a person of mixed European and black descent, especially in the Caribbean
a small, fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship of the 15th-17th centuries
an instrument formerly used to make astronomical measurements, typically of the altitudes of celestial bodies, and in navigation for calculating latitude, before the development of the sextant
(in Latin America) a man of mixed race, especially the offspring of a Spaniard and an American Indian
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
a written grant by a country's legislative or sovereign power by which an such as a company, college, or city is created and its rights and privileges defined
(British, archaic) an inhabitant of a town or borough with full rights of citizenship
originating or occurring naturally in a particular place, native
a state that is controlled and protected by another
a long journey involving travel by sea or in space
the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settles, and exploiting it economically
the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies
a multilateral system of trading in which a country pays for its imports from one country by its exports to another