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Beck Social Studies
Beck Social Studies Chp.3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| use of scientific knowledge or tools to make or do something | technology |
| navigation | the science of planning and following a route |
| expeditiion | a trip taken with the goal of exploration |
| empire | made up of land ruled by the nations that won control of them |
| entrepreneur | a person who sets up and runs a business |
| cost | the effort to gain or achieve something |
| benefit | a reward that is gained |
| Reconquista | the movement to make Spain all Catholic; also called the reconquest |
| isthmus | a narrow strip of land that connects two larger land areas |
| treaty | an agreement between countries about peace, trade, or other matters |
| grant | a sum of money or other payment given for a specific purpose |
| conquistador | any of the Spanish conquerors in the Americas during the early 1500's |
| reform | to change |
| Reformation | a Christian movement that began in 16th Century Europe as an attempt to reform the Catholic Church |
| Counter-Reformation | a time when the Catholic church banned books and used its courts to punish people who protested their ways |
| missionary | a religious teacher sent out by the church to spread its religion |
| Northwest passage | a waterway in North America thought to connect the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean |
| mutiny | rebellion against the leader of a group |
| Vikings | first people to reach North America before Columbus |
| Hernando Cortes | fought the Aztecs |
| Francisco Pizarro | fought the Incas |
| John Cabot | English explorer who thought he had reached Asia. |
| Americo Vespuccis | Italian explorer who reached America; sailed down the coat of South America |
| Balboa | One of the first Europeans to settle in America; started a settlement in Panama |
| Ponce de Leon | Spanish explorer that landed in what is now Florida |
| Francisco Vasquez de Cornado | he never found gold but claimed land for Spain |
| Hernando de Sota | Spaniard that explored the Southeastern United States; first European to see the Mississippi |
| Giovanni da Verrazano | French explorer who sailed to Newfound Land; tried to find a route to Asia |
| Jacques Cartier | French explorer tying to find the Northwest passage; claimed the land around the St. Lawrence river for France |
| Henry Hudson | English explorer who made 4 voyages to look for the Northwest passage; reached Greenland |
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