American History

Question 1

Renaissance

Answer 1

Reawaking culture and intellectual curosity in Europe.

Question 2

Magnetic Compass

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Caravel

Answer 3

A small, fast portuguese ship, usually having three sails.

Question 4

Cape

Answer 4

A point of land that sticks out into water.

Question 5

Circumnavigate

Answer 5

To travel completely around something.

Question 6

Conguistador

Answer 6

Spanish explorer in the Americas during the 1500s.

Question 7

Presidio

Answer 7

A fort.

Question 8

Export

Answer 8

To sell goods to other Countries.

Question 9

Colony

Answer 9

A settlement Of people living in a new territory controlled by the home country.

Question 10

Armada

Answer 10

A fleet of warships.

Question 11

crusades

Answer 11

A series of European Expeditions made to reign Christians holy sites.

Question 12

classical

Answer 12

related to the culture of Rome.

Question 13

astrolabe

Answer 13

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

Question 14

pueblo

Answer 14

a communal Native American structure.

Question 15

mission

Answer 15

Religious community where Native Americans were converted to Christianity.

Question 16

mercantilism

Answer 16

an economic theory that a nations power depends on its ability to increase wealth.

Question 17

reformation

Answer 17

a religious movement that rejected or changed some roman catholic teachings.

Question 18

Protestantism

Answer 18

a form of Christianity that began in opposition to the catholic church.

Question 19

Northwest passage

Answer 19

a much sought sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Question 20

Columbian Exchange

Answer 20

A global trade of people, goods, technology, ideas, and diseases.