Vocabulary in Context
A group of people who settle in a new land but remain connected to their home country.
What is a Colony?
To travel all the way around the Earth.
What is Circumnavigate?
A Spanish conqueror or soldier.
What is Conquistador?
A person of Spanish ancestry born in Spain.
What is Peninsular?
To pause or wait because of uncertainty.
What is Hesitate?
To travel completely around the world.
What is Circumnavigate?
An event that causes a significant change.
What is turning point?
A town or community, especially a Native American settlement in the Southwest.
What is Pueblo?
A person of Spanish ancestry born in the Americas.
What is Creole?
A European explorer travels to a new land despite facing dangerous conditions. What does the word "despite" tell you about the explorer?
The explorer continued even though there were dangerous conditions.
A change or adjustment.
What is Modification?
The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, people, and ideas between the Old and New Worlds.
What is Columbian Exchange?
A Spanish military fort.
What is Presidio?
A person of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry.
What is Mestizo?
The conquistador was clever and strategic.
What is Shrewd?
Even though; in spite of.
What is Despite?
It connected continents and changed diets, populations, economies, and cultures.
What is Major changes in the world?
A religious settlement established to spread Christianity.
What is a Mission?
The difference between a peninsular and a creole in Spanish colonial society.
What is Peninsulars were born in Spain; creoles were born in the Americas?
A change or adjustment.
What is modification?
Clever, smart, and good at making decisions.
What is Shrewd?
Examples include the introduction of European animals, crops, languages, religions, and diseases.
What is European and Native American culture interacting for the first time?
Presidios and missions worked together to help Spain control and colonize parts of North America.
What is Presidios provided military protection and control, while missions spread Christianity and helped establish Spanish settlements?
The reason a person's ancestry and birthplace mattered in the social class system of Spanish colonies.
What is birthplace and ancestry determined social status, power, and opportunities?
Explain how European exploration and colonization became a turning point for Native Americans and Europeans. Include at least two vocabulary words in your answer.
European exploration was a turning point because it changed life for Native Americans and Europeans.
The Columbian Exchange introduced new foods, animals, diseases, and ideas.
European colonies spread across the Americas, changing Native American cultures and traditions.
Native Americans lost land and faced new challenges.