Chapter 5 Vocabulary The Explorers A journey undertaken

Chapter 5 Vocabulary The Explorers

_____________ A journey undertaken by a group of people with a definite purpose.

_____________ • A land claimed for and controlled by a distant nation.

_____________ • Hired by Spain’s King Ferdinand Queen Isabella to set up a trade route to Asia. In 1492, instead of sailing around Africa, he sailed West which had never been attempted. ?

_____________ • A Spanish explorer who searched for wealth and land in America. 3 G’s = Gold, Glory, and God

_____________ • To grant the power of authority to carry out a specific task.

_____________ • Person belonging to one of the religious brotherhoods of the Roman Catholic Church.

_____________ • Native American village of house built of adobe, or sun dried bricks of straw and clay.

_____________ • One who is sent to do religious or charitable work in a territory or foreign country.

_____________ • A settlement founded to spread Christianity to the people of the area.

_____________ • Legendary cities that were supposedly made entirely of gold

_____________ • The first colony founded by the Spanish in the new world. Founded in 1610, Santa Fe still exists. Today the city is the capital of New Mexico.

_____________ • The first mission founded in Texas in 1682. Near present day El Paso, the mission still exists today.