government supported settlement of people to new territories

a settlement founded to spread Christianity to people in the area

a military fort or guarded settlement in an area under Spanish control

a Spanish explorer who searched for wealth and claimed land for Spain in the Americas

traveling to new territories for the purpose of discovering new resources or lands

a territory inhabited and controlled by people from a foreign land

a small community of people living in a new place

the process of supplying water to areas of land to make them suitable for growing crops

a long journey to some distant place, often by water

to cause someone to adopt a different religion, opinion, etc.

a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease

a member of a Catholic religious order

a Spanish official appointed to rule land claimed by Spain in the "New World"

a group of states or territories controlled by one ruler