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| 3320879596 | Renaissance | From the french word meaning ''rebirth'' a period of cultural and intellectual creativity in western Europe between 1300 and 1570. The artists and intellectuals who created the movement saw themselves reconnecting with the traditions of Ancient Greece and Rome, thus giving a ''rebirth '' to European culture. The cultural rebirth was accompanied by an expanding urban economy, another rebirth. | 0 | |
| 3320879597 | Guild | A sworn association of people who gather for some common purpose in towns of medieval Europe. | 1 | |
| 3320879891 | Eurocentric | Focusing on European culture or history to the exclusion of a wide, view of the world; implicitly regarding European culture as preeminent. | 2 | |
| 3320880530 | Putting Out System | Employers provide employees with raw materials and the orders for turning them into finished products, which they then buy on completion. The employees carry out the work at home. | 3 | |
| 3320880634 | Ghetto (ization) | The part of the city to which a particular group is confined for its living space. Name originally for an area adjacent to an iron foundry in the 16th century, venice where Jews were segregated by government order, the term has been used most often to designate, segregated Jewier living areas in European cities. | 4 | |
| 3320880768 | Medieval | The ''Middle period'' Europeans of the Renaissance period who felt that they were, at last, reconnecting with the glories of ancient greece and rome, called the 10 centuries between the end of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the renaissance ''The Medieval Period''. | 5 | |
| 3320881231 | Humanism | Cultural movement initiated in western Europe in the 14th century deriving from the rediscovery and study of the Greek and literary texts. | 6 | |
| 3320881779 | Casta System | Iberian word meaning race, Lineage or breed. | 7 | |
| 3326859384 | Peninsulares | Natives of Spain in the new world. | 8 | |
| 3326867107 | Criollos/creoles | Spanish people born in the new world. | 9 | |
| 3326870682 | Indians | Native Americans. | 10 | |
| 3326872153 | Mestizos | One Spanish parent, one Indian parent. | 11 | |
| 3326875208 | Mulattos | One Spanish parent, one black parent. | 12 | |
| 3326877435 | Zambos | People of mixed Indian and Black ancestory | 13 | |
| 3320883142 | Encomienda | Often given as reward to conquistadores, a Spanish system of large plantations/ estates or smaller haciendas which utilized natives as slaves for labor. | 14 | |
| 3320883339 | Mercantilism | Theory of understanding wealth and trading relationships of European countries and colonies. | 15 | |
| 3320883447 | Oriental Slave Trade | In fact, slaves had been exported from Africa to Islamic countries in the East at least century before the Atlantic slaves trade began. ''The slave trade from Africa to the East." | 16 | |
| 3320885621 | Occidental Slave Trade | Historians generally refer to the slave trade the development in the fifteenth century between Africa and the New World. | 17 | |
| 3320883448 | African Diaspora | Was the result of the force migration of millions of slaves, mostly from West Africa, and mostly to North and South America during the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, and into the nineteenth centuries. With the diaspora of the people came the diaspora if their culture, food traditions, and languages. | 18 | |
| 3320883586 | Biotas | The plant and animal species indigenous to given place or region. | 19 | |
| 3320883587 | Columbian Exchange | The exchange of biological organisms between continents and the impact on the Native America (small pox). | 20 | |
| 3320884317 | Bourgeoisie | The middle-class urbanite who, over the next three centuries, would eventually triumph over an aristocracy that had ruled for more than a thousand years. | 21 | |
| 3320884318 | Anthropogenic | (human-caused) environmental change began to accelerate in the world beginning around 1500, and the principal cause was global population growth. | 22 | |
| 3320884730 | Depopulation of Native America | unintended genocide of Native America by exposure to Europeans. | 23 |
