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unit 2 vocab
Spanish colonial era
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Reconquista | the 800 year war of the Spanish removing the Moors from their land. |
| indigenous | People that are native to a certian area. |
| conquistadors | leaders of the Spanish military that believed in war and conquest |
| viceroyalty | land that is ruled by an offical chosen by the King & queen |
| viceroy | the offical who dwas selected by the King & queen and sent to the Americans to set up New Spain |
| bison | buffalo; a main food source for Native Americans Indians; never seen by the Spanish |
| shamans | Native American Medicine Men that were veiwed as healers, physics, and leaders. |
| Alonso Alvarez de Pineda | led on the early Spanish expiditions in the Northern part of New Spain. He searched for a water route to the Pacific ocean. In 1519, he sailed along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico from Florida to mexico and made the first map od Texas |
| Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca | was one of the first Europeans to extensively explore the land that became Texas. |
| Cibola | The rumored city of Gold that was thought to be located in the Arizona - New Mexico area. Many conquistadors sought it out, but it was never found |
| pelts | animal skins that have been tanned and dried for different pourpses |
| Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la salle | a French explorer that was the first to sail the Mississippi river from North to South into the Gulf of Mexico. |
| conquest | to take control of an area by force |
| God,gold,&glory | the mantra of the sPanish conquistador. Convert native to Catolicism, search for gold, and bring glory to their God, King countryand selves |
| tenchtitlan | the Aztec capital city that was massive and thriving when the spanish conquisators arrived in Mexico |
| fort louis | after accidently sailing past mississppi la selles men shipwreckd in texas they constructed a french fort here where most of his men died from starvation and sickness or Inadan attacks. the fort abandoned and la salle murderd by his men |
| mission | a religous settlement and chusch estableshedment set up to convert people to chistisnity |