| A | B |
| ecomenda | system which awarded certian colonists land and right to get taxes from the indians on it |
| ecomendero | a spanish colonist who is granted land and the right to collect taxes from that land |
| mulatoes | person mixed black and white |
| mestizos | person indian spanish |
| creoles | white settler born in the collonies of spanish parents |
| kivas | ceramonial chamber of pueblo indians |
| hogans | dome shaped log/eartth house of the navajos |
| presidios | fort or millitary post in spanish america |
| peninsulares | person born in spain in the spanish colonies |