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CHAPTER 2.
Exploring the Americas
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Crusades (n) | One of the serious of expeditions Europeans made to regain control of Cristian holy sites in the Middle East from the A.D 1000s to the 12000s |
| Classical (ADJ) | Related to the culture of ancient Greece and Rome |
| Renaissance (n) | A reawakening of culture and intellectual curiosity in Europe from the 1300s to the 1600s |
| Technology (n) | The use of Sciencetific knowledge for practical purposes |
| Astrolabe(n) | An instrument used to plan a course,using the stars |
| Compass (n) | An instrument that shows the direction of magnetic north |
| Pilgrimage (n) | A journey to holy place |
| Mosque (n) | A Muslim house of worship |
| Cape(n) | A point of land that sticks out into water,much like a pensula |
| Devote (v) | To commit oneself or one's recources to something |
| Alter(v) | To change |
| Circumnavigate(v) | To Travel completley around something usually by water |
| Conquistador (n) | Spanish Explorer |
| Immunity (n) | resistance such as to disease |
| Pueblo(n) | A town in Spanish-ruled lands |
| Mission (v) | A religious community where farming was carried out and Native Americans were converted to Christanity |
| Presidio(n) | A fort |
| Plantation (n) | a large farm |
| Found (v) | to start,to establsh |
| Reformation (n) | A sixteeenth-century religious movement rejecting or changing some Roman Cathlic teachings and practices and establishing Protestant |
| Armada (n) | A fleet of worships |
| Protestantism (n) | A form of Christanity that was in opposition to the Catholic Church |
| Northwest Passage (n) | A sea passage between the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean along the north coast of North America |
| Wide-Spread(v) | Over a wide area |
| Tentang Farmer (n) | Settler who pays rent or provides work to a landdowner in exchnage for the right to use landowners land |
| Pose(n) | To present;To offer |
| Aquire (v) | To get possession or control |
| Contact (n) | When two or more groups or objects come together |
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