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4th Grade History
4th Grade History Ch. 1 & 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| allegiance | devotion or loyalty |
| documents | another name for writings |
| liberty | freedom |
| American freedoms | freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion |
| history | the story of what has happened in the life of a country or people |
| continent | a large mass of land |
| ocean | the largest bodies of water |
| France | made friends with the Indians and traded furs |
| Spain | financed Columbus's journey |
| geographers | people who study the earth |
| Christopher Columbus | sailor from Italy who discovered America in 1492 |
| geography | the study of the earth's surface |
| Marco Polo | Italian merchant who visited China and described its riches |
| Khan | the ruler of China |
| Ferdinand and Isabella | king and queen of Spain who financed Columbus's voyages |
| Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria | the three ships used on Columbus's first voyage |
| San Salvador | island where Columbus first landed |
| India | the part of Asia Columbus was trying to reach |
| Vikings | sea-going Scandinavian people |
| Scandinavia | a part of northern Europe; where the Vikings came from |
| Iceland | a small island between Europe and Asia |
| Greenland | the largest island in the world |
| Leif Ericson | Viking from Europe to visit America first; called the new land Vinland |
| Vinland | Vikings' name for America (Canada) |
| John Cabot | explorer that claimed North America for England in 1497 |
| Amerigo Vespucci | explorer who called America a New World first |
| Old World | name for Europe after the discovery of America |
| New World | name given to America |
| Vasco de Gama | explorer from Portugal; the first to sail around the tip of Africa |
| Vasco de Balboa | explorer from Spain who claimed the Pacific Ocean for Spain; called it the Great Sea |
| Juan Ponce de Leon | wanted to find the fountain of youth; explored Florida' first European to reach the US |
| peninsula | land surrounded by water on three sides |
| Aztecs | great Mexican Indian tribe |
| Montezuma | leader of the Aztecs |
| Hernando Cortes | conquered the Aztecs |
| Jacques Cartier | searched for a waterway through America to Asia |
| the largest ocean | Pacific Ocean |
| Seven Cities of Cibola | fabled cities full of gold; Coronado searched for them but never found them |
| Francisco de Coronado | searched for the Seven Cities of Cibola' greedy; discovered the Grand Canyon |
| Hernando de Soto | while searching for gold he discovered the Mississippi River |
| Mississippi River | discovered by De Soto |
| Queen Elizabeth I | permitted English pirates to attack Spanish ships |
| Sir Francis Drake | the most famous sea dog "Drake the Dragon" |
| sea dogs | English pirates; Drake the Dragon |
| St. Augustine | first permanent European settlement; founded by Ponce de Leon |
| Samuel de Champlain | helped to found the first successful French settlement in America "Quebec" |
| New France | first name for Canada |
| Quebec | first successful French settlement in America; founded by Champlain |
| pledge | a promise to do something |
| Atlantic Ocean | the most heavily travelled ocean; separates Europe and North America |
| Australia | smallest continent; continent with only one country |
| Asia | largest continent |
| Africa | second largest continent |
| Arctic Ocean | smallest ocean; coldest ocean |
| Indian Ocean | warmest ocean |
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