Vocab

• The Age of Contact


  was the era when Spaniards arrived in Texas searching for wealth and Native empires to conquer
• Expedition


  a journey/ voyage by a group of people
• Conquistador


  a Spanish solider-explorer who personal riches and power as well as the wealth and glory of Spain
• Navigate


  to find a way to pass through/over a body of water
• Explorer


  a person who discovers an unfamiliar area
• Colony


  a distant land under the control of a nation or a group of people sent by a government to a new territory
• Viceroy


  an official who rules in the name of the king or queen
• Columbian Exchange


  Otherwise known as the Triangular Trade, it was the exchange of diseases, ideas, food, crops, and populations between the New World and the Old World
• Mercantilism


  An economic system of trade. Colonies were supposed to find and grow "goods" and send them back to their mother country.
• Glory


  gaining recognition by expanding for the mother country