Unit 4 Vocabulary Flashcards Part 1

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Exploration

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Traveling to new places to learn about them or discover resources.

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Colonization

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Establishing control over a new area and settling it with people from another country.

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settlement

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A community where people establish homes and live together.

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push factors

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Reasons that drive people to leave their homeland, like lack of jobs or persecution.

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Pull factors

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Reasons that attract people to a new place, like job opportunities or freedom.

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Pedro Menendez de Aviles

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A Spanish explorer who founded St. Augustine, the first permanent European settlement in Florida.

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Florida

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A region in North America explored and colonized by the Spanish; it was strategically valuable for trade and defense.

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strategic

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Important for achieving a specific goal, often military or trade-related.

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Trade

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The exchange of goods and services between people or regions.

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Timucua people

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Indigenous people who lived in northern Florida and southeastern Georgia at the time of European contact.