This explorer, _______________ , was a Spanish colonist that explored the Caribbean coast of what is now Panama.

This explorer, ___________________ , set out to find an Atlantic-Pacific passage and was killed in a battle with Filipinos.

A ___________________ is a narrow passage that connects two large bodies of water.

____________________ is the opposite to something regarded as positive.

To ____________________ means to travel around.

A ________________ is a traditional story of unknown authorship.

___________________________ were soldier-adventurers that set out to explore and conquer a world unknown to them.

In 1519, ________________________ sailed from Cuba to Mexico with more than 500 soldiers.

_______________ was an Aztec leader who met with Hernando Cortes and tried to get him to leave by offering him gold.

A _________________ is an important element of something.

___________________ were large farms worked by laborers who lived on the property.

__________________________ were land grants granted by the Spanish government that included the right to demand labor or taxes from Native Americans.

_____________________ was a priest who traveled through New Spain working for reform against encomiendas.

The Spanish believed they had a duty to convert Native Americans so they set up _______________ or religious settlements.

_____________________ means non bending or not flexible.

The system of _______________ held that colonies existed to make the home country wealthy and powerful.

To ________________ means to give back something taken away.

A territorial district of a country is a _______________.

_____________________ was an Italian explorer that decided that a more northern route to Asia would be shorter and easier.

A, ____________________________ , is a sea route from the Atlantic to the Pacific that passed through or around North America.

At the top of the social structure, were the _________________, the Spanish colonists who had been born in Spain and almost all government officials came from this class.

The _______________ were colonists born in America of two Spanish parents and generally held important positions and many of them were of the wealthiest merchants and plantation owners.

The ____________________ were people of Spanish and Indian heritage and could achieve economic success as ranchers, farmers, or merchants, however entrance into the upper levels of society was impossible for them.

The ________________ were people of Spanish and African heritage and held this group of Native Americans and African Americans at the bottom of society.

In 1524, this Italian explorer, __________________ , searched for a passage for King Francis I of France.

___________________ was a French explorer who made three trips to North America for France and discovered the St Lawrence river.

________________ was an English explorer who made four voyages and explored up a river that today is known as the Hudson River.

_____________________ made the first of 11 voyages to explore and map the lands along the St. Lawrence River.

______________ is the French term for "runners of the woods," and were independent traders who lived among the Indians.

__________________ means to lessen in force, health, strength, or value.

A _____________ is the inner drive that causes a person to do something.

An ______________________ is an agreement between parties that benefits them both.

_____________________, was a French missionary that founded two missions along the Great Lakes.

_________________ was a French Canadian trader who paddled canoes along the shores of Lake Michigan with Father Marquette.