Explorers Vocabulary

To go on a journey to explore or claim land.

• Expedition
• Conquistador
• Analyze
• Territory

To look carefully or closely in order to understand.

• Demonstrate
• Analyze
• Chronology
• Claim

A conquerer, someone who comes in to take over.

• Territory
• Expedition
• Chronology
• Conquistador

An area of land that belongs to and is ruled by a country.

• Expedition
• Claimed
• Territory
• Analyze

To declare something is yours.
Something gained or achieved.

• Territory
• Conquistador
• Claim
• Demonstrate

Events written in order of time.

• Chronology
• Demonstrate
• Conquistador
• Expedition

To clearly show by giving proof or evidence.

• Demonstrate
• Analyze
• Chronology
• Territory

The __________ came in to take over the Native Americans of the Southwest.

• Territory
• Conquistadors
• Expedition
• Chronology

I can tell this text is ____________ because it uses events written in order of time.

• Chronological
• Expedition
• Claimed
• Analyzed

To understand more about their expedition, historians _______________ the journals of Lewis and Clark.

• Demonstrated
• Territory
• Conquistador
• Analyze