1. UNIT 1 VOCABULARY

2. cash crops  Crop that is sold for money… Cotton Tobacco

3.  A Period of 100 years 1500-1600 Century

4. civilization  Developed culture with organized religion and laws.

5. colonization  to establish a colonycolony

6. Columbian Exchange  Exchange of goods, ideas, and people between Europe and the Americans.

7. culture  The way of life of a group of people who share similar beliefs and customs.

8. economic  a social science concerned with description and analysis of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services

9. environment  the circumstances, objects, or conditions by which one is surrounded

10. exploration  the investigation of unknown regions

11. geography  a science that deals with the location of living and nonliving things on earth and the way they affect one another

12. mercantilism  The theory that a state’s or nation’s power depended on its wealth.

13. mission  A religious settlement

14. monotheistic  the belief that there is only one God

15. polytheistic  belief in or worship of more than one god

16. natural resources  the natural wealth of a country, consisting of land, forests, mineral deposits, water, etc.

17. Northwest Passage  Water route to Asia through North America sought by European explorers.

18. plantation  A large estate run by an owner or manager and farmed by laborers who live there.

19. Political  Connected to a political party

20. raw materials material before being processed or manufactured into a final form

21. regions  a district without respect to boundaries

22. representative government  A representative government is a system in which the people elect representatives to represent their ideas in the governing body.

23. social  The interaction between and individual and a group.

24. theocracy A form of government where society is ruled by religious leaders.