Unit 2 Vocab

a Spanish explorer who searched for wealth in the Americas

• conquistador

• viceroy

• friar

• missionary

a journey undertaken by a group of people

• expedition

• exploration

• mission

• colonization

travel undertaken in order to discover new resources

• exploration

• expedition

• mission

• colonization

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

• viceroy

• conquistador

• friar

• missionary

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

• mission

• presidio

• settlement

• quarters

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

• presidio

• mission

• settlement

• quarters

state-sponsored settlement of people to new territories

• colonization

• settlement

• territorial claims

• frontier