ch.2 social studies
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- separatist
- Puritan who wanted to leave the Church or England
- enslaved
- when someone has been forced into a system where he or she works for no pay and can be bought and sold as property
- Islam
- a religion based on the belief that there is only one God and that Muhammad was his most important prophet
- renaissance
- the period between the 14th and 16th centuries when Europeans made many advances in art, literature, and science
- religious persecution
- keeping people from worshipping God the they think is right
- ambush
- to attack by surprise froma hiding place
- epidemic
- an outbreak of disease that makes many people sick at once
- pilgrimage
- a journey made by religious people to a place they consider sacred
- privateer
- the captain of an army, privately owned ship, whom the government has given permission to attack enemy ship, any private ship operated by such a person
- pelt
- an animal skin with hair or fur still on it
- saga
- Icelandic legends about events that happened in the past
- immunity
- the ability to resist getting sick from a disease
- puritan
- a protestant during the 16th and 17th centuries who wanted to change the church of England
- legend
- a story that is told over and over again by many generations of people
- Columbian exchange
- the transfer of peoples, plants, and animals across the Atlantic Ocean after Columbus's first trip to the Americas
- plantation
- a large farm where crops are grown and the people who tend it live on the land