Early exploration and colonization vocab

a Spanish explorer who searched for wealth in the Americas

• conquistador

• Explorer

• Viceroy

• mission

a journey undertaken by a group of people

• Missionary

• Trip

• vacation

• Expedition

travel undertaken in order to discover new resources

• settlement

• expedition

• exploration

• territorial claims

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

• royalty

• empresario

• conquistador

• Viceroy

a settlement founded to spread Christianity to the people in the area

• Mission

• Presidio

• Home

• colony

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

• colony

• settlement

• Presidio

• Mission

state-sponsored settlement of people to new territories

• Colonization

• settlement

• presidio

• None of the above

Belongs to a religious order, a group within the Catholic church.

• Explorer

• Friar

• Missionary

• Pope

a person sent by a church into an area to carry on evangelism or other activities, as educational or hospital work

• Viceroy

• Explorer

• Conquistador

• Missionary

The establishment of a new region; colonization.

• settlement

• Mission

• Church

• City