Spanish Colonization and New Spain

a Spanish explorer who claimed lands in America for Spain

• pueblo

• conquistador

• creole

• hesitate

a town in the Spanish colonies

• mestizo

• pueblo

• mission

• creole

in Spain's American colonies, a person of mixed Spanish and Indian background

• creole

• mestizo

• presidio

• shrewd

a person born in Spain's American colonies to Spanish parents

• shrewd

• conquistador

• peninsular

• creole

a person from Spain who held a position of power in a Spanish colony

• mestizo

• hesitate

• peninsular

• creole

a religious settlement run by Catholic priests and friars; a settlement that aims to spread a religion into a new area

• pueblo

• mission

• mesitzo

• creole

a fort where soldiers lived in the Spanish colonies

• shrewd

• peninsular

• presidio

• mission

to stop briefly because of nervousness

• shrewed

• hesitate

• mission

• mestizo

clever

• hesitate

• mission

• pueblo

• shrewd