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Chapter 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| renaissance | A reawakeing of culture and intellectual curiosity in Europe from 1300s to the 1600 |
| classical | related to the culture of ancient Greece and rome |
| technology | the use of scientific knowledge for practical purposes |
| astrolabe | a5n 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 |
| cape | a point of land that sticks out into water much like peninsula |
| devote | to commit to oneself or one resources to something |
| alter | to change |
| circumnavigate | to travel completely around something usually by water |
| 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 Americans were converted to Christianity |
| reformation | a sixteenth century religious movement rejecting or changing some roman catholic teachings and practices and establishing protestant churches |
| armada | a fleet of worships |
| tenat farmer | settler who pays rent or provides work to a landowner in exchange for the right to use the landowners land |