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| topography | the physical terrain of an area |
| geographic region | a large area of land with similar features |
| Outer Banks | a long chain of sandy island on the east coast of north carolina |
| primary source | A firsthand account or an artifact made in the period under study |
| Coastal Plain | a broad, flat region running inland from the Atlantic and extending west ward 100 to 150 miles |
| Tidewater | a low-lying area whose waters rise and fall with the ocean tides |
| Piedmont | a region west of the oastal plain with elevations from 500 to 1,500 feet |
| fall line | The imaginary line formed by connecting all the points where rivers drop suddenly from highlands to lowlands, forming waterfalls or rapids. |
| climate | the main kind of weather that a region experiances over an extended period |
| Sun Belt | A stip of warm-weather states that runs across the southern United States |
| environment | All the living and nonliving things that make up a region |
| natural resource | The parts of nature that people use in some way |
| loam | A soil made up of a mixture of clay,sand, and decaying plants |
| artifact | An object, such as a mask, a clay pot, or a weapon that gives cles to the culture from which it comes |
| archaeologist | A scientist who studies the remains of early cultures |
| culture | A people's way of life. It includes the kinds of tool people make, the food they eat, and the language they speak. |
| culture region | A place where methods of living are similar |
| mesa | A flat-topped,steep-sided plateau |
| pueblo | The Spanish word for town |
| slash-and-burn | A method in which trees and brush are burned to clear land for fields and villages |
| oral history | Stories passed down from generation to generation |
| clan | A group of related people |
| anthropologist | A scientist who studies human culture |
| Christopher Columbus | a |
| John Cabot | a |
| Amerigo Vespucci | a |
| Giovanni da Verrazano | first European to visit what now North Carolina |
| Hernando Cortes | spaniard who conquered the Aztec empire |
| Montezuma | a |
| Francisco Pizarro | Spaniard who conquered the Incan empire |
| Atahualpa | a |
| empire | A nation and the lands that people it governs |
| viceroyalty | A large colony of the Spanish empire in America |
| missionary | A person who teaches his or her own religon to people of other faiths |
| mission | A settlement in which people of one religon teach their faith to others |
| Juan Ponce de Leon | a Spaniard who explored Florida in search of Fountain of Youth |
| Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon | Led Spain's attempt to settle in what is now North Carolina |
| hernando de Soto | b |
| Jean Ribaut | b |
| Rene de Laudonniere | b |
| Pedro Menedez | b |
| Pedro de Coronas | b |
| Juan Pardo | b |
