Roanoke Vocabulary 11/4/19

usually measure an area of land

• acres

• allies

• colonist

• colony

allies

• The colony tha vanished

• enemies in a war

• people, groups, or countries that help or support another person, group, or country.

• the colony at Roanoke

allies

• The colony tha vanished

• enemies in a war

• people, groups, or countries that help or support another person, group, or country.

• the colony at Roanoke

groups of people—often of related families—who live in the same area and share the same language, culture, and history.

• home

• colonist

• acres

• tribes

people who set up their homes in a new place after moving there. Sometimes, settlers force other people living in the area to leave. Settlers came from several countries to North America to live in the colonies.

• settlers

• friends

• settling

• home

what Europeans called North, Central, and South America after Christopher Columbus traveled there in the late 1400s. Although millions of Native peoples had lived on the land for thousands of years, it was the first time Europeans had explored it, so they called it “new.

• The New World

• tribe

• settlers

• allis

peoples of an area are the first people to live there. The Native peoples of North America have been living here for more than 15,000 years

• tribes

• The New world

• Native Peoples

• explores

people who travel to places to learn about them or to find something. During a period called “the Age of Exploration” in the 1400s and 1500s, explorers sailed around the globe searching for lands that were new to them and routes to places where they could buy and sell goods.

• fashion

• new world

• tribes

• explores

an area controlled by another country that is usually far away

• The New world

• colony

• tribe

• house

scientists who study people and cultures from long ago, often by digging up old buildings, objects, and bones and examining them carefully.

• doctor

• dentist

• family

• archaeologists