5th Grade Social Studies
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| saga | long, spoken tale repeated from one generation to the next
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| Eric the Red | Viking explorer who sailed to Iceland in about 965 and Greenland in about 982
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| Leif Ericsson | son of Eric the Red; sailed to North America in about 1000 and explored what is today known as Newfoundland
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| Vinland | the name given to North America by Viking explorers
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| slave trade | buying and selling of humans
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| navigation | science used by sailors to plot their course and determine their location
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| Columbian Exchange | movement of people, animals, plants, diseases, and ways of life
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| Amerigo Vespucci | Italian navigator who sailed along the eastern coast of South America in 1501
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| Bartolomeau Dias | Portuguese explorer who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope
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| Vasca de Gama | Portuguese explorer who sailed to India in 1497
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| Prince Henry | Prince of Portugal who established a school for sailors and navigators
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| Cape of Good Hope | The southern tip of Africa
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| expedition | a journey made for a special purpose
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| colony | a settlement far way from the country that rules it
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| Christopher Columbus | the first European to establish lasting contact between Europe and the Americas
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| West Indies | a chain of islands discovered by Christopher Columbus
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| conquistador | Spanish word for conquerors who came to the Americas in the 1500s
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| conquest | capture or taking of something by force
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| convert | to change from one belief to another
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| colonist | person who lives in a colony
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| Hernando Cortes | Spanish conqueror of the Aztec empire
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| Francisco Pizarro | Spanish conquistador who defeated the Inca empire
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| New Spain | after conquistadors took over the Aztecs, they founded a new colony in Mexico City
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| Moctezuma | leader of the Aztecs when Hernando Cortes conquered the Aztec empire
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