6018176193 | an instrument formerly used to make astronomical measurements, typically of the altitudes of celestial bodies, and in navigation for calculating latitude | Astrolabe | 0 | |
6018176194 | a small, fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship of the 15th-17th centuries. | Caravel | 1 | |
6018176195 | widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas between the Americas and the Old World in the 15th and 16th centuries, related to European colonization and trade after Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage | Columbian Exchange | 2 | |
6018176196 | a silver coin, of approximately 38 mm diameter, worth eight reales, that was minted in the Spanish Empire after 1598. | Peso de Ocho | 3 | |
6018176197 | originally established as a chartered company in 1602, when the Dutch government granted it a 21-year monopoly on the Dutch spice trade. | Dutch East India Company | 4 | |
6018176198 | hierarchical system of race classification created by Spanish elites (españoles) in Hispanic America during the eighteenth century. | Castas System | 5 | |
6018176199 | legal system by which the Spanish crown attempted to define the status of the Indian population in its American colonies. | Encomienda System | 6 | |
6018176200 | ... | Cult of Saints | 7 | |
6018176201 | The cultural rebirth that occurred in Europe from roughly the fourteenth through the middle of the seventeenth centuries, based on the rediscovery of the literature of Greece and Rome. | Renaissance | 8 | |
6018176202 | German printer of the fifteenth century, who invented the printing press. Gutenberg also invented the technique of printing with "movable type" — that is, with one piece of type for each letter, so that the type could be reused after a page was printed. | Johan Gutenberg | 9 | |
6018176203 | propositions for debate concerned with the question of indulgences, written (in Latin) and possibly posted by Martin Luther on the door of the Schlosskirche (Castle Church), Wittenberg, on October 31, 1517. This event came to be considered the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. | 95 Theses | 10 | |
6018176204 | famous English poet and playwright who lived from 1564-1616 and produced countless sonnets and plays. | Shakespeare | 11 | |
6018176205 | A zamindar in the Indian subcontinent was an aristocrat. The term means "land owner" in Persian. ... During the Mughal Empire, zamindars belonged to the nobility and formed the ruling class. | Mughal Zamindars | 12 | |
6018176206 | large royal residence built in the seventeenth century by King Louis XIV of France in Versailles, near Paris. | Palace of Versailles | 13 | |
6018176207 | Christian boys were recruited by force to serve the Ottoman government. The boys were generally taken from the Balkan provinces, converted to Islam, and then passed through a series of examinations to determine their intelligence and capabilities. | Ottoman Devshirme | 14 |
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