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King's 1st Quarter Vocabulary
Vocabulary related US History from explorers through colonization
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History
8th Grade
09/22/2006

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Decade
Definition
10 years
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millenium
Definition
1000 years
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score
Definition
20 years
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century
Definition
100 years
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16th century
Definition
In what century is 1548?
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BCE
Definition
before common era
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CE
Definition
common era
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20th Century
Definition
In what century was 1972?
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conquistador
Definition
-a Spaniard who traveled to the Americas as an explorer and conqueror in the 16th century
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circumnavigate
Definition
to sail completely around something, such as the world
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indentured servant
Definition
a person who sold his or her labor for a period of years in exchange for passage to America
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merchant
Definition
a person who buys and sells goods, a shopkeeper
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agriculture
Definition
farming, raising crops and livestock as a living
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monarchy
Definition
a nation ruled by a single person (monarch), such as a king
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Protestant
Definition
any Christian church which in NOT Catholic
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Quaker
Definition
a member of a Christian church known as the Society of Friends who believes in a simple life and are opposed to war
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Separatists
Definition
Christian religion that broke off from the Church of England
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political
Definition
having to do with citizens and the way their governments are organized
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region
Definition
a part of the earth having similar characteristics, such as land, plants and animals
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cholera
Definition
a deadly disease caused by bacteria; often spread by drinking water infected with the bacteria, symptoms include severe diarrhea
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dysentery
Definition
a disease of the intestines which causes diarrhea
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colony
Definition
the settlement of a group of people who left their own country to begin life in another, but who remain citizens of their home country
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colonization
Definition
the practice by a country of sending groups of people to a new country to begin a settlement which remains under the control of the country
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colonist
Definition
a person who helps to begin a colony or settelment
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conquer
Definition
to get by fighting; to overcome by force
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Catholic
Definition
a Christian church governed by the Pope
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economy
Definition
the system of managing the making, selling and buying of goods and services; how people make money in order to purchase what they need;
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