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