Age of Contact Vocabulary.HallsvilleJH

A spanish soldier-explorer who sought personal riches and power, as well as wealth and glory for Spain, in the conquest of the Americas.

• Conquistador

• Viceroy

• Province

• Navigate

A religious settlement.

• Mission

• Delta

• Province

• Conquistador

A triangle-shaped area of mud and silt deposits that forms at the mouth of some rivers.

• Delta

• Viceroy

• Province

• Navigate

An economic system in which a mother country accumulates wealth using natural resources of its colonies.

• Mercantilism

• Mission

• Delta

• Province

An official who rules in the name of the king or queen.

• Province

• Stockade

• Viceroy

• Delta

A district of a colony or country , similar to a state.

• Province

• Delta

• Navigate

• Stockade

To find a way to over or along a body of water.

• Navigate

• Delta

• Mission

• Province

A crude fort.

• Stockade

• Mission

• Delta

• Viceroy