Ch 3 Exploring Americas

2. a Spanish explorer
4. the use of scientific knowledge for practical purposes
8. a point of land that sticks out into water, much like a peninsula
11. to travel completely around something, usually by water
12. Passage a sea passage between the Atlantic and the Pacific along the north coast of North America
13. a form of Christianity that was in opposition to the Catholic Church
15. a fleet of warships
16. a religious community where farming was carried out and Native Americans were converted to Christianity

1. a fort
3. a 16th century religious movement rejecting or changing some Roman Catholic teachings and practices and establishing the Protestant churches
5. a reawakening of culture & intellectual curiosity in Europe from the 1300s - 1600s
6. resistance, such as to disease
7. an instrument that shows the direction of magnetic north
9. a town in the Spanish-ruled lands
10. an instrument used to plan a course of travel using the stars
13. a large farm
14. farmer a settler who pays rent or provides work to a landowner in exchange for the right to use the landowner’s land