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Chapter 3

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Definition
Technology   the use of scientific knowledge and tools to make or do something  
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Navigation   The science of planning and following a route.  
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Expedition   A trip taken with the goal of exploring.  
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Empire   A collection of lands ruled by the nation that has control of them.  
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Entrepreneur   A person who sets up and runs a business.  
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Reconquista or Reconquest   The movement to make Spain all Catholic.  
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Isthmus   A narrow strip of land that connects two larger land areas.  
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Treaty   An agreement between two countries about peace, trade, or other matters.  
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Grant   A sum of money or other payment given for a particular 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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Missionary   A religious teacher sent out by a church to spread its religion.  
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Northwest Passage   A waterway in North America thought to connect the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.  
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Mutiny   Rebellion against the leader of one's group.  
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Colony   A land ruled by another country.  
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Presidio   A Spanish fort.  
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Mission   A small religious settlement.  
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Royal Colony   A colony ruled directly by a monarchy.  
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Pilgrim   A person who makes a journey for religious reasons.  
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Compact   An agreement.  
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Benefit   A reward that is gained.  
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Cost   The effort made to achieve or gain something.  
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Reformation   A Christian movement that began in sixteenth-century Europe as an attempt to reform the Catholic Church; resulted inthe founding of Protestantism.  
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Counter-Reformation   A time when the Catholic Church banned books and used its courts to punish people who protested Catholic ways.  
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