Chapter 4 vocabulary

The European name for lands in the Western Hemisphere including North and South America. The Americas were a “new” world for Europeans but not for the native peoples who already lived there.

A time in history when people from Europe traveled to 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 1500s.

People who travel to new and unfamiliar places in order to learn what these places are like and describe them with words, pictures, and maps.

Scientists who study human artifacts to learn about past cultures.

Rock or earth from which metal can be taken.

A crop that is grown in large quantities for sale to other people.