Beck Social Studies Chp.3
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| use of scientific knowledge or tools to make or do something | technology
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| navigation | the science of planning and following a route
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| expeditiion | a trip taken with the goal of exploration
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| empire | made up of land ruled by the nations that won control of them
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| entrepreneur | a person who sets up and runs a business
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| cost | the effort to gain or achieve something
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| benefit | a reward that is gained
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| Reconquista | the movement to make Spain all Catholic; also called the reconquest
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| isthmus | a narrow strip of land that connects two larger land areas
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| treaty | an agreement between countries about peace, trade, or other matters
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| grant | a sum of money or other payment given for a specific purpose
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| conquistador | any of the Spanish conquerors in the Americas during the early 1500's
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| reform | to change
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| Reformation | a Christian movement that began in 16th Century Europe as an attempt to reform the Catholic Church
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| Counter-Reformation | a time when the Catholic church banned books and used its courts to punish people who protested their ways
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| missionary | a religious teacher sent out by the church to spread its religion
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| Northwest passage | a waterway in North America thought to connect the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
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| mutiny | rebellion against the leader of a group
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| Vikings | first people to reach North America before Columbus
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| Hernando Cortes | fought the Aztecs
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| Francisco Pizarro | fought the Incas
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| John Cabot | English explorer who thought he had reached Asia.
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| Americo Vespuccis | Italian explorer who reached America; sailed down the coat of South America
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| Balboa | One of the first Europeans to settle in America; started a settlement in Panama
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| Ponce de Leon | Spanish explorer that landed in what is now Florida
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| Francisco Vasquez de Cornado | he never found gold but claimed land for Spain
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| Hernando de Sota | Spaniard that explored the Southeastern United States; first European to see the Mississippi
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| Giovanni da Verrazano | French explorer who sailed to Newfound Land; tried to find a route to Asia
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| Jacques Cartier | French explorer tying to find the Northwest passage; claimed the land around the St. Lawrence river for France
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| Henry Hudson | English explorer who made 4 voyages to look for the Northwest passage; reached Greenland
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