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Chapter 2
Exploring the Americas
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Crusades | One of a series of expeditons Europeans made to regain control of christian holy sites in the Middle East from the A. D. 100s to the 1200s |
| Classical | Related to the culture of ancient Greece and Rome |
| Renaissance | a rewakening of culture and intellectual curiosity from Europe from the 1300 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 |
| cape | a point of land that sticks out into water much as 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 |
| presidio | a fort |
| plantation | a large farm |
| reformation | a sixteenth religious movement rejecting or changing some roman catholic teachings and practices and establisiing protestant churches |
| protestantism | a form of Christianity that was in oppisiiton to the Catholic church |
| armada | a fleet of warships |
| northwest passage | a sea passage between the Atlantic and pacific ocean along the north coast of north america |
| tenant farmer | settler who pays rent or provides work to a landowner in exchange for the right use the landowners land |
| charter | a document granting the recipient the right to settle a colony |
| joint stock company | a company in which investors buy stock return for a share of its profits |
| headright | a 50 acre of land given to colonial settlers who paid their own way |
| burgess | elected representive to an assembly |
| dissent | to disagree with or oppose an opinion |
| persecute | to mistreat a person or a group on the basis of their beliefs |
| tolerance | the ability to accept or put up with differnt views or behaviors |
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