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SS Chp 2 explorer vb
SS Chp 2 explorer vocab for Simmonds 2025
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Crusade | one of a series of expeditions Europeans made to regain control of Chritian holy sites in the Middle East from the A.D. 1000s to the 1200s |
| Classical | related to the culture of ancient Greece and Rome |
| Renaissance | a reawaking of culture and intellectual curiosity in Europe from the 1300s to the 1600s |
| Technology | the use of scientific knowledge for the practical purposes |
| Astrolabe | an instrument used to pan a course, using the stars |
| Compass | a instrument that shows the direction of magnetic north |
| Pilgrimage | a journey to a holy place |
| Mosque | a Muslim house of worship |
| Acquire | to get possession or control of |
| Cape | a point of land that sticks out into water, much like a peninsula |
| Devote | to commit oneself or one's resources to something |
| Alter | to change |
| Circumnavigate | to travel completely around something, 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-rules lands |
| Mission | a religious community where farming was carried out and Native Americans were converted 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 Proestant churches |
| Armada | a fleet of warships |
| Protestantism | a form of Chirtianity that was in opposition to the Catholic Church |
| Northwest Passage | a sea passage between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans along the north coast of the North Americas |
| Widespread | over a wide area |
| Tenant farmer | settler who pays rent or provides work to a landowner in exchange for the right to use the landowner's land |
| Pose | to present; to offer |