Colonization and Exploration Vocabulary

Traveling through an unknown land to learn

about it

• Contact

• Exploration

• Conquer

• Tourism

When two or more groups meet for the first time

• Exploration

• Conquistadors

• party

• Contact

A country or group of people take complete

control over another group’s land

• Conquer

• Claim

• Expedition

• Army

A demand for something believing it belongs to you

• Conquer

• Claim

• Expedition

• Contact

Spanish explorers and soldiers who conquered

and claimed large amounts of land for Spain in

the Americas and gained wealth and glory for

themselves.

• Viceroy

• Conquistadors

• Scouting Party

• Mayor

A journey that is planned to explore an area of

land

• Expedition

• Mission

• Conquistadors

• Exploration

A religious settlement

• Occupation

• Expedition

• Mission

• Conquistadors

When another country’s army enters and

controls another country or land

• Contact

• Exploration

• Expedition

• Occupation

A Spanish official who rules in the name of the

king or queen

• Scouting Party

• Viceroy

• Occupation

• Conquistadors

A group of people sent out to search for

something

• Mission

• Exploration

• Expedition

• Scouting Party