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Social Studies U1
Social Studies U1 Chapter 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Crusade | one of a series of expeditions Europeans made to regain control of Christian 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 purposes |
| astrolabe | a 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 muslin house of worship |
| cape | a point of land that sticks out into water, much like a 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 christanity |
| presidio | a fort |
| plantation | a large farm |
| reformation | a sixtenth-century religious movement rejecting or changing some roman Catholic teaching and practices and establishing Protestant churches |
| Protestantism | a form of Christianity that was in opposition to the catholic church |
| armada | a fleet of warships |
| Northwest Passage | a sea passage between the Atlantic and the Pacific ocean a long 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 |