Roanoke Vocabulary

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

People who set up their homes in a new place after moving there.

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

People who travel to places to learn about them or to find something.

A term that Europeans used for North, Central, and South America after Christopher Columbus traveled to the Americas in the latest 1400s.

The first groups of people to live in an area.

People who help create a colony and live there.

People, groups, or countries that help or support another person, group, or country

An area that is controlled by a country that is usually far away from the area.