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4th grade Soc Studies Chapter 4 Vocabulary

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