USH: Chapter 2 Vocabulary

The use of scientific knowledge to solve practical problems.

• Strait

• Technology

• Compass

• Circumnavigate

The ___ was invented in the 1100s and was used as a navigation aid to show the direction in which a person or vessel was traveling.

A narrow water passage between larger bodies of water.

• Alter

• Devote

• Ocean

• Strait

Magellan's crew became the first known people to ___, or sail around, the world.

Another term for the Spanish explorers...

• Conquistadors

• Pueblo

• Presidio

• Mission

With no ___, or resistance, to European diseases, the Aztec and the Inca suffered terrible epidemics.

A ___ was a town and center of trade in Spanish America.

Religious community that usually included a small town, surrounding farmland, and a church.

• Cathedral

• Presidio

• Missions

• Mestizos

The Spanish often built a ___, or fort, near a mission.

Large farms that have many workers.

• Crops

• Plantations

• Settlement

• Land