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Social-Chapter 3
Explorers
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| technology | 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 won control of them |
| entrepreneur | a person who sets up and runs and business |
| cost | the effort made to achieve or gain 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 particular purpose |
| conquistador | any of the Spanish conquerors in the Americas during the early 1500s |
| reform | to change |
| missionary | a religious teacher sent out by a church to spread its religion |
| Reformation | a Christian movement that began in sixteenth-century Europe as an attempt to reform the Catholic Church; resulted in the founding of Protestantism |
| Counter-Reformation | a time when the Catholic church banned books and used its courts to punish people who protested Catholic ways |
| 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 |
| indigenous people | native to (living in) a certain region or country |
| motivations | reasons why something is done |
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