European Explorers in Texas Vocabulary

To take control of a place or people by using military force.

• Conquest
• Conquistadores

• Cibola

• Presidio

Spanish soldiers and adventurers in search of gold, glory, and land.

• conquistadors
• Conquest

• Cultural Diffusion

• Columbian Exchange

Large areas of states, countries, or colonies controlled by a supreme authority such as a king.

• Empire
• Aztec Empire

• Presidio

• Mission

The spreading out and merging of different cultures.

• Cultural diffusion
• Columbian Exchange

• Epidemic

• Expedition

The exchange of diseases, ideas, food, crops, and people between the New World and the Old World following the voyage to the Americas by Christopher Columbus in 1492.

• Columbian Exchange
• Cartography

• Zuni

• Epidemic

a journey or voyage undertaken by a group of people with a particular purpose, especially that of exploration, scientific research, or war.

• Expedition
• epidemic

• Cibola

• Viceroy

a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.

• Colony
• Conquest

• Conquistadors

• Cibola

a Mesoamerican civilization that existed from 1428 to 1521 and comprised a confederation of three city-states: Tenochitlan, Tetzcoco, Tlacopan.

• Aztec Empire
• Empire

• Missionary

• Mission

1. the science or practice of drawing maps.

• Cartography
• topography

• Zuni

• Viceroy

a high-ranking official appointed by a monarch to govern a colony or province on their behalf: most notably used in the context of Spanish colonial rule in the Americas.

• Viceroy
• Aztec Empire

• Conquest

• Missionary