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Chapter 2
Exploring The Americas
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| crusade | one of a seriese of expedition European made to regain controlle of christian holy sites in the middle east from the ad 1000s too the 1200s |
| classical | related to the culture of ancient Greece and rome |
| renasissance | 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 starts |
| compass | shows 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 peinsula |
| circumnavigate | to travel completely around something usually by water |
| conquistador | Spanish explorer |
| immunity | resistance such as to disease |
| pueblo | a town Spanish rulled 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 sixteenth entury religious movement rejecting or changing some roman Catholic teachings and practices and establishing protestant churches |
| armada | a fleet of warship |
| protestanism | a form of Christianity that was in opposite to the Catholic church |
| northwest passage | a sea passage between the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans along the north coast of north america |
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