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| 12740397185 | Protestant Reformation | A religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches. | 0 | |
| 12740397186 | Martin Luther | A German monk who became one of the most famous critics of the Roman Catholic Chruch. In 1517, he wrote 95 theses, or statements of belief attacking the church practices. He led the Protestant Reformation. | 1 | |
| 12740397187 | 95 Theses | Martin Luther's ideas that he posted on the church door at Wittenburg which questioned the Roman Catholic Church. This act began the Reformation | 2 | |
| 12740397188 | Catholic Reformation | Religious reform movement within the Latin Christian Church, begun in response to the Protestant Reformation. It clarified Catholic theology and reformed clerical training and discipline. | 3 | |
| 12740397189 | Jesuits | Members of the Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic order founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1534. They played an important part in the Catholic Reformation and helped create conduits of trade and knowledge between Asia and Europe. | 4 | |
| 12740397190 | Columbus | Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506) | 5 | |
| 12740397191 | Magellan | Portuguese explorer who sailed around the Southern end of South America and eventually reached the Philippines, but was killed in a local war there | 6 | |
| 12740397192 | Vasco da Gama | the first European to reach India by sea sailing around the tip of Africa. | 7 | |
| 12740397194 | Plantation Economy | This referred to the inefficient, slave-centered economy of the South where all land was used to grow large amounts of cash crops for export. | 8 | |
| 12740397195 | Indentured servitude | A worker bound by a voluntary agreement to work for a specified period of years often in return for free passage to an overseas destination. Before 1800 most were Europeans; after 1800 most indentured laborers were Asians. | 9 | |
| 12740397197 | Hacienda System | landed estates granted to conquistadors | 10 | |
| 12740397201 | Peninsulare | a Spanish-born Spaniard residing in the New World or the Spanish East Indies | 11 | |
| 12740397202 | Creoles | a person of mixed European and black descent, especially in the Caribbean | 12 | |
| 12740397203 | Mestizos | A person of mixed Native American and European ancestry | 13 | |
| 12740397204 | Mulattos | Persons of mixed European and African ancestry | 14 | |
| 12740397205 | Commercial Revolution | A dramatic change in the economy of Europe at the end of the Middle Ages. It is characterized by an increase in towns and trade, the use of banks and credit, and the establishment of guilds to regulate quality and price. | 15 | |
| 12740397207 | *Louis XIV | (1638-1715) Known as the Sun King, he was an absolute monarch that completely controlled France. One of his greatest accomplishments was the building of the palace at Versailles. | 16 | |
| 12740397208 | *Phillip II | King of Spain, 1556 - 1598; married to Queen Mary I of England;he was the most powerful monarch in Europe until 1588; controlled Spain, the Netherlands, the Spanish colonies in the New World, Portugal, Brazil, parts of Africa, parts of India, and the East Indies. He was also father to Alexander the Great. | 17 | |
| 12740397210 | *Parliamentary monarchy | A government with a king or queen whose power is limited by the power of a parliament | 18 | |
| 12740397211 | Divine Rights | A belief of kings and monarchs that they have a God-given right to rule and that rebellion against them is a sin. | 19 | |
| 12740397212 | Versailles | A palace built for Louis XIV near the town of Versailles, southwest of Paris. It was built around a chateau belonging to Louis XIII, which was transformed by additions in the grand French classical style | 20 | |
| 12740397215 | Aztecs | From their magnificent capital city, Tenochtitlan, this empire emerged as the dominant force in central Mexico, developing an intricate social, political, religious and commercial organization that brought many of the region's city-states under their control by the 15th century | 21 | |
| 12740397216 | Incas | A Native American people who built a notable civilization in western South America in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The center of their empire was in present-day Peru. Francisco Pizarro of Spain conquered the empire. | 22 | |
| 12740397219 | Conquistadors | Early-sixteenth-century Spanish adventurers who conquered Mexico, Central America, and Peru. (Examples Cortez, Pizarro, Francisco.) | 23 | |
| 12740397225 | Hernan Cortes | a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire | 24 | |
| 12740397226 | Francisco Pizzaro | Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca's | 25 |
