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SS chapter 2 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| crusade | one of a series of expeditions Europeans made to regain control of Christian holy states in the middle east from 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 | an instrument used to plan a course using the stars |
| compass | an instrument that shows the direction of the 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 a peninsula |
| circumnavigate | to travel completely around something, usually by water |
| conquistador | spanish explorer |
| immunity | resistance, such as to disease |
| pueblo | a town in spanish-ruled lands |
| mission | a religous community where farming was carried out and Native Americans were converted to Christianity |
| presidio | a fort |
| plantation | a large farm |
| reformation | a sixteenth-century religious movement rejecting or changing some roman catholic teachings and practices and establishing protestant churches |
| armada | a fleet of war ships |
| protestantism | a form of Christianity that was in opposition 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 | a settler who pays rent or provides work too a landowner in exchange for the right to use the landowner's land |