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4th gr SS ch4
4th grade Soc Studies Chapter 4 Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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merchant | someone who buys and sells goods to earn money |
navigation | planning and controlling the direction of a ship |
profit | money a business has left after all expenses are paid |
Columbian Exchange | The movement of plants, animals, and people between Eastern & Western Hemispheres |
explorer | travels to new places to learn about them |
conquistador | Spanish word for conqueror |
empire | many nations ruled by a single group or leader |
colony | region ruled by another country |
mission | a religious community where priests taught Christianity to American Indians |
slavery | a system where people can be owned and forced to work for no pay |
convert | to change your religion or beliefs |
revolt | violent uprising against a ruler |
latitude | the imaginary horizontal lines on a map that go north and south from the equator |
equator | the imaginary line (horizontal) that divides a globe into the Northern hemispheres Southern hemisphere |
meridian | the imaginary line (vertical) that divides a globe into the Eastern & Western hemipheres |
**Christopher Columbus | **Wanted to find a new route to India and landed in the Caribbean islands |
**Ferdinand Magellan | **His crew was the first to sail all the way around the world (he died enroute) |
**Hernan Cortes | **Defeated the Aztecs in Mexico |
**Francisco Pizarro | **Defeated the Incas in Peru |
**Moctezuma | **Ruler of the Aztecs |