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expolers
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| crusade | one of a series of expiditions Europeans made to regain control of Christian holly sites in the Middle East for the A.D.1000s to the 1200s |
| classical | related to the culture of ancient Greece and Rome |
| renaissance | a reawakening of culture nd intellectual curosity in Erope from the 1300s to the 1600s |
| techonlgy | the use of scienctific knowledge for practical purposes. |
| astrolabe | an instrument used to plan a course,using the stars. |
| compass | an instrument that shows the direction of magenitic north |
| pligrimage | a journey to a holy place |
| mosque | a muslim house of worship |
| acquire | to get possession or contol of |
| cape | a point of land that sticks out into water, much like a peninsula. |
| devote | to commit oneself or ones resources to something |
| alter | to change |
| circumnavigate | to travel completly around something, usually by water |
| conquistador | spaanish explorer |
| immunity | resistance, such as to diease |
| contact | when two or more groups or objects come together |
| pueblo | a town in the Spanish- ruled lands |
| mission | a regligous community where framing was carried out and Native Americans were converted to Chirtianity |
| presidio | a fort |
| plantation | a large farm |
| found | to start, to establish |
| reformation | a sixteenth-centry religous movmment rejecting or changing some Roman Caothic teachings and practices and establishing protestant churches |
| armada | a fleet of warships |
| protestantism | a form of christanity that was in oppisition to the catholic church |
| northwest passage | a sea passage between the atlantic and the pacific oceans along the north coast or north america |
| widespread | over a wide area |
| teant farmer | settler who pays rent or provided work to a landowner in exchange for the right to use the landowners land |
| pose | to present,to offer |