5578878976 | Politique | Rulers who put political necessities above personal beliefs | ![]() | 0 |
5578902191 | Spanish Amarada | ¨ïnvincible¨ group of ships sent by King Phillip II to invade England | ![]() | 1 |
5578918047 | Edict of nantes | A document that gave religious freedoms to the Huguenots | 2 | |
5578950376 | Thirty Years war | international war between protestants and Catholics that ended religious conflicts in Europe | 3 | |
5578962745 | Peace of Augsburg | stated that rulers decide the religion of the state | 4 | |
5578969657 | Peace of Westphalia | ended the 30 years war; introduced new method of peace negotiation | 5 | |
5578987711 | English Civil War | Charles vs. Parliament (series of conflicts) | 6 | |
5578991350 | Petition of Right | Prohibited the King from raising taxes without the consent of parliament | 7 | |
5578996521 | Glorious Revolution | King James II no longer in power, when the crown offered to William and mary they agreed to a bill of rights that limited their power | 8 | |
5579040895 | English Bill of Rights | series of acts passed be the English parliament that limited the rights of the monarchy | 9 | |
5579045614 | Divine Right | the idea that God created monarchy and that monarch acted as Gods representative on earth | 10 | |
5579048226 | Versaillies | palace in france | 11 | |
5579050621 | Huguenots | French protestants that followed teachings of John Calvin | 12 | |
5579053497 | Reformation | A reform movement against the roman catholic church; resulted in creation of protestant churches. | 13 | |
5579059244 | Martin Luther | 16th century German religious leader; founder of protestantism | 14 | |
5579065614 | 95 theses | Prepositions for debate concerned with the question of indulgences | 15 | |
5579071145 | indulgences | selling of forgiveness by catholic church practice when church needed money | 16 | |
5579077288 | John Calvin | believed in importance of living a good life and obeying Gods laws, leader in protestant movement | 17 | |
5579081217 | Jesuit | member of society of Jesus, a religious order that undertook missionary activity in europe | 18 | |
5579085449 | council of trent | group of catholic leaders to respond to protestant challenges and direct future of catholic church | 19 | |
5579089184 | inquisition | punish nonbelievers | 20 | |
5579098121 | Leonardo Da vinci | Italian painter famous for the Mona Lisa | 21 | |
5579099463 | Michelangelo | Sculptor, led way for renaissance masters form his david sculture | 22 | |
5579105693 | Thomas Hobbes | Wrote leviathan, his theory that all humans are self-driven and that the best government was a monarch that had all power | 23 | |
5579111161 | John Locke | thought mankind were good and all men were equal, and had right to life | 24 | |
5579115824 | Social Contract | where people sell some of their rights in order to be protected by the government | 25 | |
5579135152 | Empiricism | Theory that all knowledge is stimulated by rise of experimental science | 26 | |
5579138478 | Johannes Kepier | mathmatician, in scientific revolution | 27 | |
5579145155 | ISaac newton | in scientific revolution, | 28 | |
5579146978 | Gelileo Gelotei | italian polymath in scientific revolution | 29 | |
5579151297 | Joint- stock companies | companies whos goods are shared by the shareholders | 30 | |
5579154346 | mercantilism | theory that trade generates wealth and stimulated by profitable balances | 31 | |
5579157761 | Cottage industry | buisness carried on in a persons home | 32 | |
5579160355 | Adam smith | worlds most famous economicist, wealth of nations | 33 | |
5579162239 | Physiocrats | member in group of french enconomicists who believed agriculture the source of all wealth | 34 | |
5579166165 | Capitalism | economic and political system, which country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state. | 35 | |
5579181007 | East india Company | English and later British stock company, which formed to pursue trade with the east indies | 36 | |
5579186767 | third estate | every french citizen who did not possess a noble title not appointed by the church | 37 | |
5579189769 | primogeniture | the first born child, especially the rule that the real estate past to eldest son | 38 | |
5579193930 | bartholomew diaz | noblemen of Portuguese royal household, Portuguese explorer | 39 | |
5579199480 | Vasco de gama | portuguese explorer and first european to reach india by sea | 40 | |
5579202366 | Ferdinand magellan | portuguese explorer who organised the castilllian expedition to east indies | 41 | |
5579207502 | conquistadors | spanish conqueror of mexico and peru | 42 | |
5579209540 | herman cortes | spanish conquistadors who led an expedition that caused the fall of the aztec empire | 43 | |
5579217801 | Treaty of tordesillas | divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between portugal and the crown of castile | 44 | |
5579225185 | viceroys | a ruler excising authority in a colony on behalf of a sovereign | 45 | |
5579232854 | Audiences | 46 | ||
5579233942 | Potosi | a city in Bolivia: formally a rich silver mining center | 47 | |
5579236152 | columbian exchange | period of cultural and biological ecxhange between the old and new world | 48 | |
5579240850 | Economienda | grant by the spanish crwon to a colonist in america conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from indian inhabitants of an area | 49 | |
5579245146 | mita | 50 | ||
5579245147 | engennos | sugar cane mil and associated facilties | 51 | |
5579247347 | indentured servitude | someone who works for another for a certain amount of time who then pays for their freedom | 52 | |
5579250656 | creoles | someone who has European and African descent | 53 | |
5579256659 | mestizos | a man of mixed race, especially the offspring of a Spaniard and an American Indian. | 54 | |
5579260527 | peninsulares | a Spanish-born Spaniard inhabiting in the New World or the Spanish East Indies. | 55 | |
5579264891 | mulattoes | a person of mixed white and black ancestry, especially a person with one white and one black parent. | 56 | |
5579269206 | castas | a hierarchical system of race classification created by Spanish elites | 57 | |
5579269207 | triangle trade | shipping goods from Britain to West Africa to be exchanged for slaves, these slaves being shipped to the West Indies and exchanged for sugar, rum, and other commodities | 58 | |
5579277105 | atlantic trading system | Millions of Africans were torn from their homes, deported to the American continent and sold as slaves | 59 | |
5579280820 | middle passage | the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies. | 60 | |
5579288778 | African Diaspora | the mass dispersion of peoples from Africa during the Transatlantic Slave Trades | 61 |
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