European Exploration and Colonization Vocabulary

_______ a series of expeditions Europeans made to regain control of Christian holy sites in the Middle East from the 1000s C.E. to the 1200s.

• Crusades

• Caravels

• Conquistadors

• Presidios

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

• Reformation

• Reconstruction

• Renaissance

• Redistricting

________ is the use of scientific knowledge for practical purposes' equipment that makes use of advanced knowledge and skill.

• evalutate

• isolate

• technology

• advancement

______ = an instrument that uses positions of the stars to plan a course

• map

• compass

• astrolabe

• caravel

______ = a device that is used to find direction by means of a needle that always points north.

• caravel

• compass

• astrolabe

• quadrant

A _________ was a small, fast Portuguese ship used during the age of exploration and usually had three sails

• compass

• astrolabe

• quadrant

• caravel

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

• cape

• valley

• inlet

• fjord

________ means to travel completely around something.

• circumnavigate

• presidio

• mercantilism

• conquistador

A __________ was a Spanish explorer in the Americas during the 1500s.

• pueble

• presidio

• conquistador

• Crusades

________ means the resistance of an organism to infection or disease.

• mission

• technology

• Reformation

• immunity