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unit 2 vocabulary
Spanish colonial era
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| TERM | definition |
| Reconquista | The 800 year war of the Spanish removing the Moors form their land . |
| indigenous | people that are native to a certain area |
| conquistador | leader of the Spanish military that believed in war and conquest |
| Viceroyalty | land that is ruled by an official chosen by the queen & king |
| Viceroy | the official who was selected by the king and 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 were viewed as healers, physics and leader. |
| Alonso Alvarez de Pineda | led on the early Spanish expeditions in the northern part of the new Spanish .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 of 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 conquistador sought it out ,but it was never found . |
| pelts | Animals skins that have been tanned and dried for different purposes. |
| Rene Roberts 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 | |
| God, Gold,& Glory |
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