| A | B |
|---|
| Timberline | elevation in which trees can't grow |
| Artifacts | items that people had created |
| totem poles | tall wooden posts with carving faces |
| terraces | leveled off strips of land |
| tribute | a tax that could be paid in goods or services |
| manors | tiny indendent kingdoms |
| navigation | the science of piloting ships |
| colony | a settlement made in another land |
| Amerigo Vespucci | Italian explorer for whom America was named |
| John Cabot | A Italian sea captain |
| Northwest passage | a waterway |
| Francisco Pizarro | Spanish Conquisador |
| Pueblos | towns that were established for the centers of trade |
| Christopher Cloumbus | explored the Islands of the Carribean Sea |
| Juan Ponce de Leon | Explored Porto Rico and Florida |
| Juan Cabrillo | Explored the west coast and North America |
| Henry Hudson | Explored the Hudson River |
| Rober de La Salle | Explored the Great Lakes and found Louisiana |
| plantations | large farms |
| Royal Colony | a colony under a control of a king |
| Puritans | Most of these people stayed in the Anglican Church and tried to change it from within |
| Mayflower Compact | a pact that set up self government |
| Subsistance Farming | farming that produces just enough food for their families |
| Cash Crops | food crops grown to be sold |
| Rural | mostly farms with only few farms and one large city |
