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Ch.2 Exploring the A
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Crusade | One series of expectations Eurpens made to regain control of Christian holy sites in the middle eastern from the A.D 1000 stop the 1200s |
| classical | related to the culture of ancient Greese and Rome |
| Renaissance | A reawakening of culture and intellectual curiosity in Europe from the 1300s to the 1600s |
| technology | the use of scientific knowledge for practical purposes |
| compass | an instrument that shows the direction of magnetic north |
| astrolabe | an instermant used to plan a course using the stars |
| pilgrimage | a journey to a holy place |
| mosque | a muslum house of worship |
| acquire | to gett possession or control of |
| cape | a point of land that sticks out into water much like a peninsula |
| devote | to commit oneself or ones resourses to Somthing |
| alter | to change |
| circumnavigate | to travel completely around Somthing usually by water |
| conquistador | spanish explorer |
| immunity | resistance such as to disease |
| contact | when two or more groups or objects come together |
| pueblo | a town in the Spanish-ruled lands |
| mission | a religioius community where farming was carried out and Native Amaricans were converted to Christianity |
| presidio | a fort |
| plantation | a large farm |
| found | to start, to establish |
| reformation | a sixteenth-century religous movement regecting or changing some Roman Cathlic teachings and practces and establishing protestant churches |
| armada | a fleet of warship |
| protestantism | a form of Christianity that was in oppostion to the Catholic |
| Northwest passage | a sea passage between the alantic and the pasific oceans along the north coast of North Amarica |
| widespread | over a wide area |
| tenant farmer | setter who pays rent or provides work to a landowner in exchange for the right to use the Landowners land |
| pose | to present, to offer |