Chapter 4 vocabulary Flashcards
New world
The European name for lands in the Western Hemisphere including north and South America. Americans were a new world for Europeans but not for the native people that already lived there.
Age Of exploration
A time in history when people from Europe traveled to a faraway and unfamiliar places such as Africa and the Americans in order to learn about them and make maps of them. The age of exploration began in the late 1400s and continued through the late 1500s
Explorer
People who travel to new unfamiliar places In order to learn what these places are like and describe them with words and pictures and maps.
Archeologists
Scientists who study human artifacts to learn about the past cultures.
Ore
Rock or earth from metal can be taken.
Cash crop
A crop that is grown in large quantities for sale to other people.