| A | B |
|---|
| conquistador | conquerors |
| pueblo | adobe dwelling of the Anasazis; town in the Spanish colonies |
| presidio | fort where soldiers lived in the Spanish colonies |
| mission | religious settlement run by Catholic priests and friars |
| peninsulare | person from Spain who held a position of power in a Spanish colony |
| creole | a person born in Spain's Ameraican colonies to Spanish parents |
| mestizo | in Spanish colonies, persson of mised Spanish and Indian background |
| encomienda | right given by Spanish government to Spanish settlers to demand labor or taxes from Native Americans |
| plantation | large estate farmed by many workers |
| Balboa | adventurer claimed the Pacific Ocean for Spain |
| Magellan | explorer crossed the Pacific Ocean killed in Philippine Islands |
| Montezuma | the Aztec emperor who ruled over much of Mexico |
| Cortes | conquistador attacked Montezuma and caused the downfall of the Aztec empire |
| Pizarro | conquistador that attacked & gained control of the Incan empire |
| Spanish borderlands | land beyond the Aztec and Incas (USA) |
| Laws of the Indies | code of laws about how colonies should be organized divided the people in Spanish colonies into four social classes |
| deLeon | traveled through Florida looking for the Fountain of Youth (1513) |
| deSoto | searched for cities of gold reached the Mississippi (1541) |
| Coronado | conquistador looking for cities of gold, through Mexico to Arizona and New Mexico |
