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

• circumnavigate

• to travel completely around something, usually by water

• pilgrimage

• a journey to a holy place

• mission

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

• Northwest Passage

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

• Crusade

• 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

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

• a narrow sea passage

• astrolable

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

• strait

• an instrument that shows direction of magnetic north

• immunity

• resistance, such as to a disease

• cape

• an instrument used to plan a course, using stars

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

• Catholocism

• Immuity

• Reformation

• Protestantism