Age of Contact Vocbulary

a Spanish explorer who searched for wealth in the Americas

• conquistador

• exploration

• colonization

• Missionary

A person who spreads his or her religious beliefs to others

• conquistador

• missionary

• friar

• frontier

a military post or guarded settlement in an area under Spanish control

• viceroy

• friar

• colonization

• presidio

state-sponsored settlement of people to new territories

• mission

• colonization

• presidio

• expedition

a wilderness at the edge of a settled area of a country

• frontier

• friar

• expedition

• conquistador

a journey undertaken by a group of people

• viceroy

• conquistador

• expedition

• presidio

travel undertaken in order to discover new resources

• exploration

• frontier

• viceroy

• missionary

Spanish official appointed to rule land claimed by Spain in the New World

• missionary

• viceroy

• friar

• exploration