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Exploreres vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Crusade | one of a series of expeditions Europeans made to regain control of Christian holy sites in the Middle East from the A.D. 1000 to the 1200s |
| Classical | related to the culture of ancient Greece and Rome |
| Renaissance | a rewakining of culture and intellectual curiosity in Europe from the 1300s to the 1600s |
| Technology | the use of scientific knowledge for practical purposes |
| astrolabe | an instrument used to plan a course, using the stars |
| compass | an instrument that shows the direction of magnetic north |
| pilgrimage | a journey to a holy place |
| mosque | a Muslim house of worship |
| acquire | to get possesion or control of |
| Cape | a point of land that sticks out into water, much like a peninsula |
| devote | to commit oneself or ones recources to something |
| alter | to change |
| circumnavigate | to travel completely around something, usually by water |
| conquistador | spanish explorer |
| immunity | resistance, such as to dicease |
| Pueblo | a town in the Spanish-ruled lands |
| Mission | a religous community where farming was carried out and native americans were converted to Christianity |
| found | to start, to establish |
| presidio | a fort |
| plantation | a large farm |
| Reformation | a sixteent-century religous 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 beetween the atlantic and the pacific oceans along the north coast of north america |
| widespread | over a wide area |
| Tenant farmer | stteler who pays rent or provides work to a landowner in exchange for the right to use the landowners land |
| pose | to present; to offer |