| A | B |
| Northwest Passage | A waterway in North America thought to connect the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. |
| Missionary | A religious teacher sent out by a church to spread its religion. |
| Reformation | A christian movement that began in sixteenth-century Europe as an attempt to reform the Catholic Church; resulted in the pounding of Protestantism. |
| Reform | to change for the better |
| conquistador | any of the Spanish conquerors in the Americas during the early 1500s |
| Grant | a sum of money or other payment given for a particular purpose |
| counter-reformation | a time when the Catholic Church banned books and used its courts to punish people who protested Catholic ways. |
| mutiny | rebellion against the leader of one's group |