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| 2519822336 | laissez-faire economics | European economic policy of the 16th - 18th centuries that held that there was a limited amount of wealth available; key to the attainment of wealth was the acquisition of colonies | 0 | |
| 2519822337 | indulgence | a document whose purchase was said to grant the bearer the forgiveness of sins | 1 | |
| 2519822338 | scientific revolution | European intellectual movement in the 17th century that established the basis for modern science | 2 | |
| 2519822339 | parliamentary monarchy | a govt with a king/queen whose power is limited by the power of parliament | 3 | |
| 2519822340 | factor | an agent with trade privileges in early Russia | 4 | |
| 2519822341 | taj mahal | white marble mausoleum built in Agra, India, by the mogul emperor shah Japan for his favorite wife | 5 | |
| 2519822342 | mercantilism | economic concept that holds that the govt shouldn't interfere with or regulate business and industries | 6 | |
| 2519822343 | creoles | a term used in colonial Spanish America to describe a person born in the Americas of European parents | 7 | |
| 2519822344 | northwest passage | passage through the North America continent that was sought early by explorers to North America as a route to trade with the east | 8 | |
| 2519822345 | enlightenment | a philosophical movement in 18th century Europe that was based on reason and the concept that education and training could improve human society | 9 | |
| 2519822346 | viceroyalty | a political unit ruled by a viceroy that was the basis of organization of the Spanish colonies | 10 | |
| 2519822347 | encomienda | a practice in the Spanish colonies that granted land and the labor of native Americans on that land to European colonists | 11 | |
| 2519822348 | devshirme | practice of the Ottoman Empire to take Christian boys from their home communities to serve as janissaries | 12 | |
| 2519822349 | caravel | small, easily steerable ship used by the Spanish and Portuguese in their explorations | 13 | |
| 2519822350 | protestant reformation | religious movement began by matin Luther in 1517 that attempted to reform the beliefs and practices of the Roman Catholic Church; resulted from the formation of new Christian denominations | 14 | |
| 2519827441 | capitalism | an economic system based on private ownership and opportunity for profit making | 15 | |
| 2519838510 | northern renaissance | extension of the Italian Renaissance to the nations of Northern Europe; the northern Renaissance took on a more religious nature than the Italian Renaissance | 16 | |
| 2519849808 | philosophies | French enlightenment social thinkers | 17 | |
| 2519853278 | mulatto | in Spanish and Portuguese colonies a person of mixed African and European descent | 18 | |
| 2519858883 | divine right | the belief of absolute rulers that their right to govern is granted by god | 19 | |
| 2519863023 | treaty of tordesillas | the 1494 treaty in which the pope divided unexplored territories between Spain and portugal | 20 | |
| 2519868881 | sovereignty | self rule | 21 | |
| 2519870083 | cossacks | Russians who conquered and settled Siberia in the 16th and 17th centuries | 22 | |
| 2519874431 | boyars | Russian nobility | 23 | |
| 2519875157 | mughal dynasty | rulers who controlled most of India in the 16th and 17th centuries | 24 | |
| 2519880347 | absolute monarchy | rule by a king/queen who's power is not limited | 25 | |
| 2519883113 | natural laws | principles that govern nature | 26 | |
| 2519884811 | manchus | people from northeastern Asia who founded China's Qing dynasty | 27 | |
| 2519894902 | members of the society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic missionary and educational order founded by Ignacio's of Loyola in 1534 | 28 | ||
| 2519895367 | janissaries | members of the ottoman army, often slaves, who were taken from Christian lands | 29 | |
| 2519900205 | qing dynasty | manchurian rule of China beginning in 1644 and lasting until 1914 | 30 | |
| 2519904156 | peninsulares | In the Spanish colonies, those who were born in europe | 31 | |
| 2519907268 | mestizos | in the Spanish colonies, persons of mixed European and native descent | 32 | |
| 2519910741 | repartamiento | in the Spanish colonies, a replacement for the encomienda system that limited the number of working hours for laborers and provided fair wages | 33 | |
| 2519932721 | ninety-five these | work by Martin Luther where he laid out his arguments against the Roman Catholic church | 34 | |
| 2519937618 | dutch learning | western learning embraced by some Japanese in the 18th century | 35 | |
| 2519941977 | estates-general | the traditional legislative body of france | 36 | |
| 2519944985 | catholic reformation | religious reform movement within the Roman Catholic church that occurred in response to the Protestant reformation. it reaffirmed catholic beliefs and promoted education. | 37 | |
| 2519955092 | reconqista | the recapture of Muslim held lands in Spain by Christian forces; it was completed in 1492 | 38 | |
| 2519959170 | excommunication | practice of the Roman Catholic and other Christian churches of prohibiting participation in the sacraments to those who do not comply with church teachings or practices | 39 | |
| 2519968823 | middle passage | the portion of the trans-Atlantic trade that involved the passage of africans from Africa to the americas | 40 | |
| 2519978509 | purdah | the Hindu custom of secluding women | 41 | |
| 2519985730 | tokugawa shogunate | the feudal rulers of japan who moved the capital to edo. ruled from 1603 -1868 | 42 | |
| 2519986710 | commercial revolution | the expansion of trade and commerce in Europe in the 16th and 17th century | 43 | |
| 2519993036 | colombian exchange | exchange of foods, crops, disease and livestock between eastern and western hemispheres after the voyages of columbus | 44 | |
| 2520001214 | triangular trade | the 18th century trade network between Europe, Africa and the Americas | 45 | |
| 2520005664 | heliocentric revolution | the concept that the sun is in the center | 46 | |
| 2520010031 | deism | the concept of God common to the scientific revolution; the God was believed to have set the world in motion and then allowed it to operate by natural laws | 47 | |
| 2520015954 | hagia Sophia | the church in Constantinople that was converted to a mosque after the ottoman conquest | 48 | |
| 2520019050 | glorious revolution | the bloodless overthrow of English king James and the placement of William and Mary on the English throne | 49 | |
| 2520023423 | predestination | the belief of protestant reformer John Calvin that God had chosen some people for heaven and others for hell | 50 |
