2.1 Spanish Colonization and New Spain

Conquerors/ a Spanish explorer who claimed lands in America for Spain

• Explorer

• Colonist

• Conquistador

• Peninsulare

a town in the Spanish colonies

• Pueblo

• Colony

• Tribe

• Presidio

a fort where soldiers lived in the Spanish colonies

• Mission

• Presidio

• Pueblo

• Colony

a settlement run by Catholic priests and friars whose goal was to convert Indians to Christianity

• Presidio

• Pueblo

• Mission

• Creole

a person from Spain who held a position of power in a Spanish colony

• Mestizo

• Creole

• Indian

• Peninsulare

a person born in Spain's American colonies to Spanish parents

• Creole

• Peninsulare

• Mestizo

• Indian

in Spain's American colonies, a person of mixed Spanish and Indian background

• Creole

• Mestizo

• Indian

• Peninsulare

an area of land granted to a Spanish settler with the legal permission to demand labor or taxes from Native Americans

• Plantation

• Draft Law

• encomienda

• perspective

a large estate farmed by many workers

• Land Grant

• Encomienda

• Field

• Plantation

a point of view

• Option

• Idea

• Opinion

• perspective