| A | B |
| conquistador | A spanish soldier who sought riches and power for himself and wealth and glory for Spain |
| friar | a member of a catholic religious order |
| mission | a religious settlement built by friars in the Americas |
| viceroy | an official who represents the monarch |
| pueblo | a series of connected flat-roofed buildings |
| stockade | a fort designed to protect those who live in it |
| sandbar | a shallow sandy spot in a body of water such as a river or ocean |
| Fort St. Louis | a colonial stockade |