Chapter 2- Exploring the Americas - Vocabulary

a reawakening of culture and intellectual curiosity in Europe from the 1300s to the 1600s

• Renaissance

• circumnavigate

• classical

• pose

the use of scientific knowledge for practical purposes

• technology

• armada

• devote

• Northwest Passage

an instrument used to plan a course, using the stars

• astrolabe

• conquistadors

• Renaissance

• mosques

a journey to a holy place for a religious purpose

• Pilgrimage

• reformation

• found

• acquire

Muslim house of worship

• mosques

• devote

• Renaissance

• mission

to travel completely around something, usually by water

• circumnavigate

• cape

• astrolabe

• presidio

Spanish explorer in the Americas during the 1500s

• conquistadors

• contact

• acquire

• plantation

a town in the Spanish-ruled lands

• pueblos

• plantation

• mission

• presidio

a religious community where farming was carried out and Native Americans were converted to Christianity

• mission

• pilgrimage

• Protestantism

• mosques

A fort - usually built near a mission.

• presidio

• pueblos

• missions

• circumnavigate