Spanish Exploration in the Americas Vocab

What is the definition of a conquistador?

• A Spanish explorer who searched for wealth in the Americas

• A journey undertaken by a group of people

• Travel undertaken in order to discover new resources

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

What is the definition of an expedition?

• A Spanish explorer who searched for wealth in the Americas

• A journey undertaken by a group of people

• Travel undertaken in order to discover new resources

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

What is the definition of exploration?

• A Spanish explorer who searched for wealth in the Americas

• A journey undertaken by a group of people

• Travel undertaken in order to discover new resources

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

What is the definition of a viceroy?

• A Spanish explorer who searched for wealth in the Americas

• A journey undertaken by a group of people

• Travel undertaken in order to discover new resources

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

What is the definition of a mission?

• A Spanish explorer who searched for wealth in the Americas

• A journey undertaken by a group of people

• Travel undertaken in order to discover new resources

• A settlement founded to spread Christianity to the people in the area

What is a presidio?

• a journey undertaken by a group of people

• A large Orangutan

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

• state-sponsored settlement of people to new territory

What is colonization?

• state-sponsored settlement of people to new territory

• A process of making a new software
• A process of creating a new planet
• A process of creating a new species