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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Crusades | one of a series of expeditions Europeans made to regain control of Christain 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 reawakening of culture and intellectual curiosity in Europe from the 1300s to the 1600s |
| technology | the use of scientific knowledge for practical purpose |
| astrolage | 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 |
| aquire | 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 ones resorces 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 ruled lands |
| mission | a religious community where farming was carried out and Native Amerians were converted to Christanity |
| presidio | a fort |
| olantation | a large farm |
| found | to start to esablish |
| reformation | a sixteenth century religious movment rejecting or changing some Roman Catholic teachings and practices and establishing proestant churches |
| armada | a fleet of warships |
| protestantism | give me the form of Christianity that was in position to the Catholic Church |
| northwest passage | a sea passage between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans along the North Coast of north America |
| 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 |