- conquistador: spanish word for conqueror
- creole: person born in spains american colonies to spanish parents
- mestizo: spanish colony a person of mixed spanish and indian background
- mission: religious settlment run by catholic priests & friars
- peninsulare: person from spainwho held a positionof power in a spanish colony
- presidio: fout were soldiers live in spainish colonies
- pueblo: adoby dwelling of the anazis