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| 50717904 | Secular | Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters | 0 | |
| 50717905 | Protestant | a member of a Christian church founded on the principles of the Reformation. | 1 | |
| 50717906 | Indulgences | a pardon releasing a person from punishments due for a sin, sold by the catholic church to help raise $$$$ | 2 | |
| 50717907 | Predestination | Christian doctrine that God has decided all things before hand, including which people will be eternally saved (john calvin) | 3 | |
| 50717908 | absolutism | A system of government in which a monarch holds sole and uncontestable power over the state and his or her subjects. Supporters of this theory linked royal power with divine authority, presenting the monarch as God's lieutenant on earth. It was most prevalent in the 17th century and emerged in response to decades of religious warfare, which fueled public demand for a strong ruler who could maintain order. It is best exemplified by Louis XIV (r.1643-1715) of France. | 4 | |
| 50717909 | divine right | the idea that monarchs are God's representatives on earth and are therefore answerable only to God. | 5 | |
| 50717910 | Parliamentary monarchy | Originated in England and Holland, 17th century, with kings partially checked by significant legislative powers in parliaments. | 6 | |
| 50717911 | capitalism | an economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit | 7 | |
| 50717912 | mercantilism | an economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought | 8 | |
| 50717913 | proletariat | Class of working people without access to producing property; typically manufacturing workers, paid laborers in agricultural economy, or urban poor; in Europe, product of economic changes of 16th and 17th centuries | 9 | |
| 50717914 | ethnocentrism | regarding one's own culture as being superior to others and judging other cultures from the perspective of your own culture | 10 | |
| 50717915 | colonialism | control by one power over a dependent area or people | 11 | |
| 50717916 | coercive | forded labor, including slavery | 12 | |
| 50717917 | encomiendas | a grant of land made by Spain to settle in the americas, included the right to demand labor or taxes from Native Americans. Est. a framework for relations based on economic dominance | 13 | |
| 50717918 | conquistador | One of the Spanish soldiers who sought riches and power for themselves, and wealth and glory for Spain, in the conquest of the Americas | 14 | |
| 50717919 | haciendas | Rural agricultural and herding estates; produced for consumers in America; basis for wealth and power of the local aristocracy. | 15 | |
| 50717920 | peninsulares | Spanish born residences of the new world, came to Latin America; ruled, highest social class | 16 | |
| 50717921 | creoles | In colonial Spanish America, term used to describe someone of European descent born in the New World. Elsewhere in the Americas, the term is used to describe all nonnative peoples. (p. 482) | 17 | |
| 50717922 | galleons | Large, heavily armed ships used to carry silver from New World colonies to Spain; basis of convoy system used for transportation of bullion. | 18 | |
| 50717923 | mestizo | mixed spanish and native american ancestry | 19 | |
| 50717924 | Columbian Exchange | The global transfer of plants, animals, and diseases that occurred during the European colonization of the Americas | 20 | |
| 50717925 | hegemony | the predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others | 21 | |
| 50717926 | mita | Forced labor system replacing Indian slaves and encomienda workers; used to mobilize labor for mines and other projects. | 22 |
