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Chapter 2
Exploring the Americans
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Crusade | One of a series of expedition Europeans made to regain control of Christian holy in the Middle East from the A.D. 1000S to the 1200S. |
| Classical | Related to the culuture of ancient Greece and Rome. |
| Renaissance | A reawaking of culture and intellectual curiousty in Europe from 1300S to the 1600S. |
| Technology | The use of scientific knowledge for practical purposes. |
| Astrolabe | An instruement 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. |
| Circumnavigate | To travel completely around something, usually by water. |
| Conquistador | Spanish explorer. |
| Immunity | Resistance, such as to disease. |
| Pueblo | A town in the Spanish-ruled lands. |
| Mission | A religious community where farming was carried out and Native Americans were converted to Christianity. |
| Presido | A fort. |
| Plantation | A large farm. |
| Reformation | A six-teenth century religious movement rejecting or changing some Roman Catholic teachings and practices and establishing Protestant churches. |
| Armada | A fleet of warships. |
| Protestantism | A form of Christiany that was oppostion to the Catholic Church. |
| Northwest Passage | A sea passage between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans along the north coast of North America. |
| Tenant Farmer | Settler who pays rent or provides work to a landowner in exchange for the right to use the landowner's land. |