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AP World History Unit 3 1450-1750 Flashcards

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23610377caravela small Spanish or Portuguese sailing vessel of the Middle Ages and later, usually lateen-rigged on two or three masts.0
23610378chartered CitiesA charter city is a city in which the governing system is defined by the city's own charter document rather than by state, provincial, regional or national laws.1
23610379city- Statesa sovereign state consisting of an autonomous city with its dependencies.2
23610380coerced labor systemsforced labor: indentured slaves, serfs, slaves.3
23610381conquistadorsA conqueror, especially one of the 16th-century Spanish soldiers who defeated the Indian civilizations of Mexico, Central America, or Peru.4
23611036elitesA group or class of persons or a member of such a group or class, enjoying superior intellectual, social, or economic status.5
23611037empirea group of nations or peoples ruled over by an emperor, empress, or other powerful sovereign or government.6
23611038epidemic Diseaseany infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people.7
23611039excommunicationto stop communicating with a person or peoples.8
23611040feudalof, pertaining to, or like the feudal system, or its political, military, social, and economic structure.9
23765094filialnoting or having the relation of a child to a parent.10
23765095ideologythe body of doctrine, myth, belief, etc., that guides an individual, social movement, institution, class, or large group.11
23765096imperialof, like, or pertaining to an empire.12
23765097joint- stock companiespartnership between two companies.13
23765098kinship groupsgroup of people related by blood or marriage.14
23769538manumissionto release from slavery or slavitude.15
23769539mercantilismeconomic theory that stressed governments' promotion of limitation of imports from other nations.16
23769540missionariesa person sent by a church to spread their religion and help others.17
23769541monasticismlife, system, condition having to do with monasteries.18
23769542monotheismthe belief that there is only one god.19
23769543nobilitynoble class or body of nobles in a country.20
23769544nuna women member of a religious order.21
23769545patriarchya form of social organization in which the father is the supreme authority in the family, clan, or tribe and descent is reckoned in the male line.22
23769546pilgrimsa person who travels to a foreign or holy place for their religion.23
23769547polytheismthe belief that there is more than one god.24
23769548priesta person whose office is to perform religious rights.25
23769549protestantany Western Christian who is not an adherent of a Catholic, Anglican, or Eastern Church.26
23769550renaissancethe activity, spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world.27
23769551sacramentsomething regarded as possessing a sacred character or mysterious significance.28
23769552sacred textstexts that a religion believes to be sacred or of central importance.29
23769553schisma formal division within, or separation from, a church or religious body over some doctrinal difference.30
23769554slaverythe condition of a slave.31
23769555slave tradethe business or process of procuring, transporting, and selling slaves.32
23769556stratificationthe hierarchical or vertical division of society according to rank, caste, or class.33
23769557tariffstaxing of certain imported goods by the government.34
23769558tax revenuegovernment income due to taxation.35
23769559technologythe branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment.36
23769560The Statethe gov.37
23769561trade diasporasthe relocation of a large population of a particular people group from one place to another triggered by economics.38
23769562trade goodsthe goods that are being trading between people.39
23769563urbanin the city.40
23769564usurythe lending or practice of lending money at an exorbitant interest.41

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