Topic 2 - Exploring the Americas

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

• Renaissance

• Reformation

• Mission

• Pilgrimage

Fleet of warships is known as

• Crusade

• Armada

• Astrolabe

• Presidio

A narrow sea passage is called a

• channel

• river

• ocean

• straight

If I travel around the world that would be an example of

• circumnavigation

• reformation

• mission

• None of the Above

One of a series of expeditions Europeans made to regain control of the Christian holy sites in the Middle East from the A.D. 1000's to 1200's

• Mission

• Pilmgrimage

• Crusade

• Armada

Match the following

• pilgrimage

• a journey to a holy place

• mission

• one of a series of expeditions Europeans made to regain control of Christian holy sites in the Middle East from A.D. 1000s to the 1200s

• Northwest Passage

• to travel completely around something, usually by water

• Crusade

• a sea passage between the Atlantic and the Pacific along the north coast of North America

• circumnavigate

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

Related to the culture of ancient Greece and Rome

• modern

• contemporary

• classical

• country

A form of Christianity that was in opposition to the Catholic Church

• Protestantism

• Catholicism

• Buddhism

• Reformation

Match the following

• compass

• resistance, such as to a disease

• cape

• an instrument that shows direction of magnetic north

• astrolable

• an instrument used to plan a course, using stars

• immunity

• a point of land that sticks out into water, much like a peninsula

• strait

• a narrow sea passage

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

• Catholocism

• Immuity

• Reformation

• Protestantism