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Exploring The Americas

TermDefinition
(n) Crusade one of series of expeditions Europeans made to regain control of Christan holy sites in the Middle East from the A.D. 1000s to the 1200s
(n) Classical related to the culture of ancient Greece and Rome
(n) Renaissance a reawakening of culture and intellectual curiosity in Europe from the 1300 to the 1600s
(n) technology the use of scientific knolegdge for practical purposes
(n) astrolabe an instrument used to play a course using the stars
(n) compass an instrument that shows the direction of magnetic north
(n) pilgrimage a journey to a holy place
(n) mosque a Muslim house of worship
(v) acquire to get possession of control of
(n) cape a point of land that ticks out into water, much like a peninsula
(v) devote to commit oneself or ones resources to something
(v) alter to change
(v) circumnavigate to travel completely around something, usually by water
(n) conquistador Spanish explorer
(n) immunity resisistance, such as to disease
(v) contact when two or more groups or objects come together
(n) pueblo a town in the Spanish-ruled lands
(n) mission a religious community where farming was arrived out and Native Americans were converted to Christanity.
(n) presidio a fort
(n) plantation a large farm
(n) Reformation a sixteenth-cntury religious movement rejecting or changing some Roman Catholic teaching and practices establishings Protestant churched
(n) armada a fleet of warships
(n) Protestantism a form of Christanity that was in opposition to the Catholi Church
(n) Northwest Passage a sea passage between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans along that north coast of North America
(n) tenant farmer settler who pays rent or provides work to a landowner in exchange for the right to use the landowner's land
(v) pose to present; to offer
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