Spanish Missions Vocabulary Quiz

A fortified military base

• Mission

• Pirate

• Presidio

• Cede

Religious communities created by the Spanish in North America

• Presidio

• Colonization

• Territory

• Mission

a place, typically one that has been uninhabited, where people establish a community

• Territory

• Settlement

• Cede

• Spanish Mission

an area of land under the jurisdiction of a ruler or state.

• Settlement

• Territory

• Presido

• Epidemic

change one's religious faith or other beliefs

• Epidemic

• Pirate

• Cede

• Convert

a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time

• Epidemic

• Pirate

• Mission

• Colonization

a person who attacks and robs ships at sea.

• Mission

• Social Class

• Cede

• Pirate

give up (power or territory).

• Pirate

• Cede

• Territory

• Colonization

the action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area.

• Social Class

• Missions

• Colonization

• Cede

a division of a society based on social and economic status

• Social Class

• Spanish Mission

• Pirate

• Territory