Vocabulary Extra Credit 1st 6 Weeks

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Across
  1. 2. expression of the ways of living developed by a community and passed on from generation to generation, including customs, practices, places, objects, artistic expressions and values.
  2. 4. first-hand account, eyewitness
  3. 5. A person who was living in New Spain but was born in Spain
  4. 8. A person with Spanish And Native parents
  5. 10. watering of land to make it ready for agriculture.
  6. 13. distinct areas with a common physical environment.
  7. 14. originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native
  8. 15. A person with Spanish parents who were born in a Spanish colony
  9. 16. ranches
  10. 17. describe the people of a place, their languages, religions, economic activities, political systems, population distribution and their modifications of the environment.
  11. 19. the exact position of a place on Earth, often stated in latitude and longitude.
  12. 20. a prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall; a shortage of water resulting from this.
  13. 21. widespread outbreak of disease
  14. 23. where a place is in relation to other places.
  15. 25. A person of Spanish descent living in Texas
  16. 26. tools, weapons, and other objects made by people
  17. 27. relating to farm/country
  18. 28. term describing the transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Americas and other continents since the time of Columbus.
  19. 29. placing events in the order they happened relative to one another
Down
  1. 1. the arrangement or spread of people living in a given area; also how the population of an area is arranged according to variables such as age, race, or gender
  2. 3. Spanish soldiers and adventurers in search of glory, gold and land.
  3. 5. describe the natural environment of the place.
  4. 6. Religious communities established by Spanish Catholics
  5. 7. created later by someone that did not experience firsthand or participate in the events
  6. 9. action of traveling in or through an unfamiliar area in order to learn about it.
  7. 11. groups of people who move from place to place
  8. 12. military bases in Spanish colonial America
  9. 18. a kind of clay used as a building material
  10. 22. anything handed down from the past, as from an ancestor or predecessor
  11. 24. a list or timeline of specific dates and events
  12. 25. claim concerned with the ownership of a particular area of land or water.