European Exploration Vocabulary

An open space surrounded by buildings.

• plain

• plaza

• missionary

• colony

Traveling in search of new discoveries.

• colonization

• plaza

• exploration

• adventure

Growing crops and raising animals.

• agriculture

• missionary

• exploration

• culture

Production of food to sell to others culture ideas, skills, customs, and way of life of a certain people.

• domestication

• colonization

• factory

• commercial agriculture

The settlement of a people into an area that is new to them.

• colonization

• commercial agriculture

• exploration

• city

A person on a trip for the purpose of spreading his or her religion.

• explorer

• missionary

• adventurer

• priest

New London is a city influened by _______________ settlers.

• Spanish

• Portuguese

• English

• French

Which European settlers spread the Catholic religion?

• French

• Spanish

• Indian

• Portuguese

Europeans brought this agricultural technique with them to the Americas.

• clear cutting

• slash and burn

• terrace farming

• chinampas

Commerical agriculture allowed settlers to....

• produce large amounts of food for the people who moved there.

• produce large amounts of food for trading with European countries.

• produce only enough food for the people who moved there.

• build shelter