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Ch.2
exploring the america
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Crusade | (n or verb)one of series of expeditions Europeans made to regain control of Christian holy sites in the Middle East from the A.D 1000s to the 1200s |
| classical | (n)Related to the culture of ancient Greece and Rome |
| Renaissance | (v)a reawakening of culture and intellectual curiosity in Europe from the 1300s to the 1600s |
| Technology | (n)The use of scientific knowledge for practical purposes |
| Astrolabe | (v)An instrument used to plan 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 warship |
| acquire | (v)to get possesion of control of |
| cape | (n)a point of land that stick out into water, much like a peninsula |
| devote | (v)to commit oneself of one's resources to something |
| alter | (v)to change |
| circumnavigate | (v)to travel completely around something, usually by water |
| conquistador | (n)Spanish explorer |
| immunity | (n)resistance, such as to disease |
| contact | (n or v)when two or more groups of objects come together |
| pueblo | (n)a town in the Spanish-ruled lands |
| mission | (n)a religious community where faming was carried out and Native Americans were converted to Christianity |
| presidio | (n)a fort |
| plantation | (n)a large farm |
| found | (v)to start, to establish |
| Reformation | (n) a sixteenth-century religious movement rejecting or changing some Roman Catholic teachings and practices and establishing protestant churches |
| Armada | (n)a fleet of warships |
| protestantism | (n)a form of christianity that was in opposition to the Catholic church |
| Northwest passage | (n)a sea passage between the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans along the north coast of North America |
| widespread | (adj) over a wide area |
| tenant farmer | (n)settler who pays rent or provides work to landowner in exchange for the right to use the landowner's land |
| pose | (n or v)to present, to offer |