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USHxU1 Explore
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| technology | organization of knowledge and machinery to achieve human goals, |
| compass | navigational device that uses Earth's magnetic field to show direction |
| strait | narrow, natural channel of water that connects two larger bodies of water |
| circumnavigate | to travel completely around an entire area, island, or the Earth |
| conquistador | a 16th-century Spanish or Portuguese soldier, explorer, or adventurer who led military expeditions to seize native territories in the Americas and expand colonial rule |
| immunity | in us history, native people did not have natural protection against disease from Europe |
| pueblo | village built by Indigenous peoples of the American Southwest using adobe, stone, and timber |
| mission | religious and cultural outpost established by European powers—principally Spain—to convert Indigenous peoples to Christianity |
| presidio | military base or fort built by the Spanish Empire in North America to protect its claimed territories |
| plantation | a very large farm that specializes in growing a single cash crop for sale, relying heavily on forced or cheap labor |
| Reformation | religious movement that challenged the Roman Catholic Church and led to the birth of Protestantism |
| Protestantism | a major form of Christianity that emphasizes the authority of the Bible as the sole source of faith, salvation through grace by faith alone, |
| armada | a large fleet of warships |
| northwest passage | historical sea route through the icy Arctic waters of North America that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean |
| tenant farmer | person who rents farmland and a home from a landowner, paying rent in cash or a share of the crops |
| Christopher Columbus | italian explorer and navigator who sailed for Spain across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492 |
| queen Isabella and king Ferdinand | King Ferdinand II were the 15th-century rulers of Castile and Aragon whose marriage unified Spain and launched the age of exploration by funding Christopher Columbus |
| Amerigo Vespucci | Italian explorer and navigator realized the Americas were a totally separate continent and not Asia |
| Ferdinand Magellan | Portuguese explorer who led the first expedition to sail all the way around the Earth |
| the Columbian Exchange | transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, and diseases between the New World (the Americas) and the Old World (Afro-Eurasia) |
| Hernan Cortes | conquistador who led the expedition that overthrew the Aztec Empire and claimed mainland Mexico for Spain |
| Francisco Pizarro | Spanish conquistador who led the military expedition that conquered the Inca Empire |
| Juan Ponce de Leon | (c. 1474–1521) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the first official European expedition to Florida in 1513 and served as the first governor of Puerto Rico |
| Jean Ribault | French naval officer, navigator, and explorer |
| Pedro Menendez de Aviles | is famous for founding St. Augustine, Florida, in 1565, which is the oldest continuously occupied European settlement in the continental United States. |
| St. Augustine | oldest continuously occupied European-established settlement in the continental United States |
| Martin Luther | 16th-century German monk and theologian whose challenges to Catholic practices sparked the Protestant Reformation |
| Henry Hudson | English sea explorer and navigator who mapped parts of the Arctic Ocean and northeastern North America |
| Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette | a French Jesuit missionary and a French-Canadian fur trader who explored and mapped the upper Mississippi River region in 1673 |
| Robert Cavelier de la Salle | 17th-century French explorer and fur trader best known for navigating the Mississippi River and claiming its entire basin for France |
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