Ch.2 Exploring the Americas

Spanish explorer

• conquistador

• pueblo

• mission

• plantation

the use of scientific knowledge for practical purposes

• compass

• technology

• strait

• alter

navigation aid that shows the direction in which a person or vessel is traveling

• strait

• technology

• alter

• compass

to change

• strait

• alter

• technology

• copy

to commit oneself or one’s resources to something

• contact

• convince

• devote

• pose

a sixteenth-century religious movement rejecting or changing some Roman Catholic teachings and practices and establishing the Protestant churches

• armada

• Reformation

• conquistador

• Protestantism

a narrow water passage between larger bodies of water

• circumnavigate

• devote

• strait

• immunity

to go around completely; to sail around the world

• circumnavigate

• strait

• plantation

• pueblo

resistance

• conquistador

• devote

• immunity

• contact

a town and center of trade in Spanish America

• missions

• pueblo

• presidio

• plantations