Spanish Exploration Vocab

Period of time in which many European conquistadors made expeditions throughout the world in search of resources.

• Era of Spanish Colonization

• Era of Spanish Exploration or Era Age of Contact

• Era of Texas Region and Early Texas People

• Mexican Revolution Era

Characterized by the cultures of the American Indian tribes prior to the arrival of the Europeans?

• Era of Spanish Colonization

• Era of Spanish Exploration or Era Age of Contact

• Era of Texas Region and Early Texas People

• Mexican Revolution Era

Significance of the Reconquista

• It was a war that lasted 700 years

• It made Spain incredibly powerful

• The Moors conquered Spain 

• Spain fought to regain control of their country

Trade of food, livestock, and disease transported to and from Europe to Americas

• Middle Passage

• Columbian Exchange

• Triangle Trade

• The Encomienda System

Spanish attempt to enslave Indigenous people, forcing them to work on plantations growing cash crops in order to make a large profit for Spain. 

• Middle Passage

• Columbian Exchange

• Triangle Trade

• The Encomienda System

Three-legged economic model that takes raw and produced material to another area and trade route that was based on the transatlantic trade of enslaved people.

• Middle Passage

• Columbian Exchange

• Triangle Trade

• The Encomienda System

Enslaved people were forced to take across the Atlantic

• Middle Passage

• Columbian Exchange

• Triangle Trade

• The Encomienda System

To "convert"

• develop

• change

• remain the same

• evolve

Pineda Maps Coastline of Texas! and Cortes Defeats Aztecs!

• 1492

• 1519

• 1528

• 1540

Coronado and Cibola

• Book about Texas

• Seven Cities of Gold (mythical never found, possibly adobe pueblo village)

• A city in Florida

• A ship bound for the new world