8 History Ch.1 vocab Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
nomadic | groups of people constantly on the move |
mounds | Native American burial sites that look like large hills |
adobe | a dried clay and straw mixture |
totem poles | poles carved from large trees that depicted local legends and important events |
animism | the belief that spirits live in objects in nature |
Vikings | seamen from northern Europe ; also known as Norsemen |
Leif Ericson | a Viking who discovered Vinland |
Christopher Columbus | an Italian sailor who discovered America;discovered it with the support of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain |
Amerigo Vespucci | Italian merchant and explorer that gave proof that america was not the Orient, but a "new world" |
conquistadors | Spanish explorers |
Juan Ponce de Leon | first Spaniard to explore Florida |
Hernando de Soto | Spanish explorer that discovered and died at the Mississippi River |
St. Augustine | the oldest permanent city settled by Europeans in America |
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado | Spanish explorer that discovered the adobe villages of the Pueblo Indians; first European to see the Grand Canyon |
John Cabot | English explorer that claimed the Atlantic coast of America for England |
Sea Dogs | group of English sea captain that struck at the heart of Spanish power |
Sir Francis Drake | most famous of the sea dogs |
Queen Elizabeth I | knighted Sir Francis Drake |
Jacques Cartier | |
Robert de la Salle | |
Samuel de Champlain | |
Huguenots | |
Sir Walter Raleigh | |
Jamestown | |
Powhatan Indians | |
John Smith | |
'starving time' | |
indentured servants | |
House of Burgesses |
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