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vocab word strip #2
us history
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| slash-and-burn agriculture | farming in which farmers chop down and then burn trees on a plot of land |
| deganawida | a native American who advised the Iroquois nations to form an alliance |
| Iroquois league | the alliance of the Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida ,Onondaga, and Seneca |
| European middle ages | the period from the late 400's to about the 1300's |
| feudalism | a political system in which a king lets nobles, or lords , use lands in return for military services |
| manor system | a system in which lords divide their lands into manors, or large estates, farmed by serfs |
| crusades | a series of wars to recapture the holy land |
| renaissance | a time of increased interest in art and learning |
| reformation | a movement to correct problems in the catholic church |
| navigator | a person who plans the course of a ship using instruments to find its position |
| caravel | a ship with a triangular and square sails that improved the ability of sailing nearly into the wind |
| Christopher Columbus | an Italian sailor who reached the Americas when he sailed across the Atlantic ocean in search of Asia |
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