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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| crusade | one of a series of expeditions . |
| classical | related to the culture of ancient greece and rome. |
| renaissance | a reawakening of culture and iintellectual curiosity from the 1300s to the 1600s. |
| technoligy | the scientific knowlege and purpous. |
| compass | An instrument that shows the direction of magnetic north. |
| astrolabe | An instrument used to plan a course, useing the stars. |
| pilgrimage | A journey to a holy place. |
| mosque | A muslum house of warship. |
| cape | a point of land that sticks out into water, miuch like a peninsula. |
| devote | to commit oneself or one´s resources to something. |
| alter | to change. |
| circumnavigate | to travle comppletly around something usually by water. |
| conquistador | Spanish explorer. |
| immunity | resistance, such as disease. |
| contact | When two or more groups or objects come together. |
| pueblo | a town in the Spanish, ruled lands. |
| mission | a religous comunity where farming was carried ouut and Native Amariicans were convertied to Christianity. |
| presidio | a fort. |
| plantation | a large farm. |
| found | to start, to establish. |
| Reformation | a sixteenth century religious movement rejecting or changing some Roman Catholic teachings and practices and establishing Protestant churches. |
| armada | a fleet of warships. |
| protestantism | a form of Christianity that was an opposition to the Catholic Church. |
| Northwest Passage | a sea passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans along the north coast of North America. |
| tenant farmer | a settler who pays rent or provides work to a Lynn owner and exchange for the right to use the landowners land. |