SS: Early Explorers Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Technology | the use of scientific knowledge and tools to make or do something |
Navigation | The science of planning and following a route. |
Expedition | A trip taken with the goal of exploring. |
Empire | A collection of lands ruled by the nation that has control of them. |
Entrepreneur | A person who sets up and runs a business. |
Reconquista or Reconquest | The movement to make Spain all Catholic. |
Isthmus | A narrow strip of land that connects two larger land areas. |
Treaty | An agreement between two countries about peace, trade, or other matters. |
Grant | A sum of money or other payment given for a particular purpose. |
Conquistador | Any of the Spanish conquerors in the Americas during the early 1500's. |
Reform | to change. |
Missionary | A religious teacher sent out by a church to spread its religion. |
Northwest Passage | A waterway in North America thought to connect the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. |
Mutiny | Rebellion against the leader of one's group. |
Colony | A land ruled by another country. |
Presidio | A Spanish fort. |
Mission | A small religious settlement. |
Royal Colony | A colony ruled directly by a monarchy. |
Pilgrim | A person who makes a journey for religious reasons. |
Compact | An agreement. |
Benefit | A reward that is gained. |
Cost | The effort made to achieve or gain something. |
Reformation | A Christian movement that began in sixteenth-century Europe as an attempt to reform the Catholic Church; resulted inthe founding of Protestantism. |
Counter-Reformation | A time when the Catholic Church banned books and used its courts to punish people who protested Catholic ways. |
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