Age of Exploration Vocabulary

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Pueblo 

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• a town that was a center for trade

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Circumnavigate 

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• to travel all the way around the earth

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• Crusades

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Europeans’ expeditions to Middle East to retake control of Christian holy sites

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Astrolabe 

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• an instrument used to plan a course using the stars

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Renaissance 

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• Rebirth of interest in classical Greek and Roman ideas in 1300s-1600s

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Protestantism 

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• a form of Christian religion

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Presidio 

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a fort built near a mission

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Plantation 

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a large farm worked by laborers who lived on the property

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Conquistador

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Spanish soldier-adventurer who traveled to Americas for riches

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Mission

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• a religious  community that included a town, farmland, and a church