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5th Grade Exploration Chapters Vocabulary & Explorers

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Monopoly   Complete control of selling a product or service  
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Circumnavigate   Sail around the world  
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Archipelago   Group or Chain of Islands  
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Cartographer   Mapmaker  
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Mutiny   Sailors overthrowing the captain on a ship  
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Charter   Permission to found a colony in the Americas  
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Scurvy   A disease caused by the lack of vitamin C  
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Strait   A narrow waterway that connects two bodies of water  
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Hull   The sides and bottom of a boat  
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Royal Standard   Explorers raised this when they claimed a region for their monarch.  
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Columbus   Was sponsored to find a western route to the East Indies  
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Drake   Defeated the Spanish Armada  
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Verrazano   Sailed into New York Harbor  
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Magellan   Was a Portuguese who led a Spanish expedition  
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Polo   Wrote about his visit to China  
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Raleigh   Founded the Roanoke Colony  
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Hudson   Sailed as far as Albany, NY  
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Champlain   Founded a settlement in what is now Quebec City  
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Cabot   Was an Italian who led an English expedition (changed his name)  
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Balboa   Claimed the Pacific Ocean for Spain  
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