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| Marco Polo | Italian Merchant who travel to China and stirred the interest of Europeans |
| Navigation | Science of determining a ship's location and direction |
| Colony | Settlement far away from the country that rules it |
| Coronado | searched for what is now the southwestern US for the 7 cities of gold |
| Tobacco | Cash crop witch helped the colony of Jamestown to grow and become wealthy |
| Religious Freedom | Pilgrims left England in search of... |
| Indentured Servant | A person who agreed to work for a certain # of years in return for passage to America |
| House Of Burgesses | First lawmaking body of government in Virginia |
| Civilization | A kind of culture that has complex systems of government, education and religion |
| Physical map | A map that highlights Earth's natural features |
| Political map | A map that shows the boundaries of states and countries |
| Mayflower Compact | An agreement the Pilgrims made before landing in New England to make and obey laws |
| Cartographer | Someone who makes maps |
| Plateau | A high flat landform |
| Glacier | A huge sheet of ice |
| Lands Relief | Differences in elevation of the land |
| Empire | Large area of different groups of people controlled by 1 ruler or government |
| Special Purpose Map | Map that shows the main products made in each of the 50 states |
| Irrigation | Method by which water is brought into dry areas |
| Interrupted Projection Map | Kind of map that makes it difficult to accurately calculate distances |
| Bartholomeu Dias | First person to sale to the tip of Africa but refused to go on |
| Maya and Olmec | Civilizations which developed complex cultures |
| Isthmus | Central America is an example of..? |
| Columbus | Spanish explorer who sailed west in 1492 and founded the New World |
| Hernando De Soto | Explored the southeast US and was the first European to see the Mississippi River |
| Jacques Cartier | First to sail down the St. Lawrence River and claimed the river for France |
| Latitude and Longitude | These are both measured in degrees and minutes |
| Maps | Helpful tool that shows historians were events took place |
| Prince Henry | Person who started a school in Portugal to teach navigation |
| Tenochtitlan | Capital of the Aztec civilization |
| The Aztec and the Inca Emperors | Emperors who gained power by conquering neighboring peoples |
| The Columbian Exchange | Exchange of goods and ideas between Europeans and Native Americans |
| The Description of the World | Book written by Marco Polo |
| French | The Europeans who developed the best relations with Native Americans |
| Beringia | The first Americans who probably came here from Asia walking across a land bridge called...? |
| First people to settle the Americans | These people survived by hunting animals and gathering plants |
| Quebec | First permanent French settlement in North America |
| The Inca | Built terraces to grow crops on steep hillside |
| Francisco Pizarro | Conquered the Inca Empire |
| The Equator | The latitude line at 0 degrees |
| Prime Meridian | The longitude line at 0 degrees |
| Atlantic-Pacific-India-Arctic | The major oceans in the world |
| The Map Key | Meanings of the colors and symbol on a map are explained here |
| Longitude line | An imaginary line or Meridian measuring distance East or West of the Prime Meridian |
| The Mound Builders | A group of people who lived near the Mississippi and Ohio rivers |
| The Robinson Map | A projection map used by most geographers today |
| Specialization | A kind of job a person spends most of his/her time doing |
| The Mercator Projection Map | A map that shows land shape accurately |
| Globes | Acuurately shows size and shapes of landmasses and bodies of water |
| Vasco Nunez de Balboa | Crossed Panama to see the Pacific Ocean |
| Roanoke | Also known as the "lost colony" |
