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6024069514Trans-Oceanic Tradeglobal trading system in the Caribbean and the Americans trade networks extended to all corners of Atlantic Ocean0
6024069515Columbian ExchangeAn exchange of goods, ideas and skills from the Old World (Europe, Asia and Africa) to the New World (North and South America) and vice versa.1
6024069516MercantilismAn economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought2
6024069517Triangular TradeTrading System between Europe, Africa, and the colonies; European purchased slaves in Africa and sold them to colonies, new materials from colonies went to Europe while European finished products were sold in the colonies.3
6024069518Middle PassageA voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies4
6024069519CaravelA small, highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic.5
6024069520Cartographythe science or the art of making maps6
6024069521Joint-stock companiesbusinesses formed by groups of people who jointly make an investment and share in the profits and losses7
6024069522East India CompaniesBritish, French, and Dutch trading companies that obtained government monopolies of trade to India and Asia; acted independently in their regions.8
6024069523Royal African Companya mercantile company set up by the Stuart family and London merchants to trade along the west coast of Africa9
6024069524AmerindiansAmerican Indians10
6024069527Italian Renaissancerebirth of Classical (Greece/Rome) art/architecture - humanistic focus - patrons - families like Medici and the Catholic Church - blended natural world w/ religion - transition away from religion11
6024069528Northern RenaissanceAn extension of the Italian Renaissance to the nations of northern Europe; the Northern Renaissance took on a more religious nature than the Italian Renaissance12
6024069529The MediciThe family of bankers that started out as middle class & then loaned money to a guy that became the pope & then they became the wealthiest family in Florence. They sponsored many artists/architects like Brunesllshci & made lots of money off them.13
6024069530HumanismA Renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements14
6024069531Protestant ReformationA religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church.15
6024069532Martin LutherA 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.16
602406953395 ThesesMartin Luther's ideas that he posted on the church door at Wittenburg which questioned the Roman Catholic Church. This act began the Reformation17
6024069534AnglicanismA Protestant denomination of the Christian faith founded by Henry VIII in England18
6024069535Catholic ReformationReligious reform movement within the Latin Christian Church, begun in response to the Protestant Reformation. It clarified Catholic theology and reformed clerical training and discipline.19
6024069536JesuitsMembers 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.20
6024069537Scientific RevolutionA major change in European thought, starting in the mid-1500s, in which the study of the natural world began to be characterized by careful observation and the questioning of accepted beliefs.21
6024069538CopernicusDevised a model of the universe with the Sun at the center, and not earth.22
6024069539DescartesFrench philosopher, discovered analytical geometry. Saw Algebra and Geometry have a direct relationship. Reduced everything to spiritual or physical.23
6024069540NewtonThis physicist developed the law of universal gravitation and further caused the decline of the old system of science24
6024069541GalileoHe was the first person to use a telescope to observe objects in space. He discovered that planets and moons are physical bodies because of his studies of the night skies.25
6024069542DeismA popular Enlightenment era belief that there is a God, but that God isn't involved in people's lives or in revealing truths to prophets.26
6024069543John Locke17th century English philosopher who opposed the Divine Right of Kings and who asserted that people have a natural right to life, liberty, and property.27
6024069544ColumbusItalian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506)28
6024069545MagellanPortuguese explorer who sailed around the Southern end of South America and eventually reached the Philippines, but was killed in a local war there29
6024069546Vasco da Gamathe first European to reach India by sea sailing around the tip of Africa.30
6024069547Zheng HeAn imperial eunuch and Muslim, entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean, from Southeast Asia to Africa.31
6024069551Plantation EconomyThis referred to the inefficient, slave-centered economy of the South where all land was used to grow large amounts of cash crops for export.32
6024069552Indentured servitudeA 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.33
6024069553Encomienda SystemSpaniards received grants of a number of Indians, from whom they could exact "tribute" in the form of gold or labor34
6024069554Hacienda Systemlanded estates granted to conquistadors35
6024069555Mita SystemThe system recruiting workers for particularly difficult and dangerous chores that free laborers would not accept.36
6024069560Peninsularesa Spanish-born Spaniard residing in the New World or the Spanish East Indies37
6024069561Creolesa person of mixed European and black descent, especially in the Caribbean38
6024069562MestizosA person of mixed Native American and European ancestry39
6024069563MulattosPersons of mixed European and African ancestry40
6024069568Commercial RevolutionA 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.41
6024069575Phillip IIKing 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.42
6024069579Parliamentary monarchyA government with a king or queen whose power is limited by the power of a parliament43
6024069580Divine RightsA belief of kings and monarchs that they have a God-given right to rule and that rebellion against them is a sin.44
6024069588European Empires in the AmericasGreat Britain, France, Spain, Netherlands, Denmark45
6024069589Aztecsa nomadic tribe in northern Mexico, arrived in Mesoamerica around the beginning of the 13th century. From their magnificent capital city, Tenochtitlan, this group 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 century46
6024069590IncasA 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.47
6024069593ConquistadorsEarly-sixteenth-century Spanish adventurers who conquered Mexico, Central America, and Peru. (Examples Cortez, Pizarro, Francisco.)48
6024069594Thirty Year Wara series of wars in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648. It was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history, as well as the deadliest European religious war, resulting in eight million casualties.49
6024069595Treaty of WestphaliaEnded Thirty Years War in 1648; granted right to individual rulers within the Holy Roman Empire to choose their own religion-either Protestant or Catholic.50
6024069599Enlightenmenta European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition51
6024069600John Locke17th century English philosopher who opposed the Divine Right of Kings and who asserted that people have a natural right to life, liberty, and property.52
6024069601Adam Smitha Scottish moral philosopher, pioneer of political economy, and a key figure in the Scottish Enlightenment53
6024069602Mary WollstonecraftEnglish writer and early feminist who denied male supremacy and advocated equal education for women54
60240696037 Years Wara war fought between 1754 and 1763, involving every European great power of the time except the Ottoman Empire, spanning five continents, and affected Europe, the Americas, West Africa, India, and the Philippines. The conflict split Europe into two coalitions, led by the Kingdom of Great Britain (Prussia, Portugal, Hanover, and other small German states) on one side and the Kingdom of France (Austria-led Holy Roman Empire, Russia, Spain, and Sweden) on the other.55
6024069604French & Indian WarAmerican version of the 7 Year's War, French and Indians fight colonists and are victorious in early stages, then British pour on the pressure and emerge victorious, end-result French are removed from North America and Britain is left in debt.56
6024069605Treaty of TordesillasA treaty signed by Portugal and Spain to divide the new world.57
6024069606Treaty of ZaragosaA treaty signed by Portugal and Spain to divided up Asia.58
6024069607Hernan Cortesa Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire59
6024069608Francisco PizzaroSpanish conquistador who conquered the Inca's60
6024069612Viceroyaltiesthe office, position, or authority of a viceroy61
6024087200Zheng HeAn imperial eunuch and Muslim, entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean, from Southeast Asia to Africa.62
6024089767balance of powerDistribution of military and economic power that prevents any one nation from becoming too strong (especially in Europe).63
6024091234James CookEnglish navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779).64
6024094343Council of TrentCalled by Pope Paul III to reform the church and secure reconciliation with the Protestants. Lutherans and Calvinists did not attend.65
6024095655Charles VThis was the Holy Roman Emperor that called for the Diet of Worms. He was a supporter of Catholicism and tried to crush the Reformation by use of the Counter-Reformation66
6024100074creolesDescendents of Spanish-born but born in Latin America; resented inferior social, political, economic status.67
6024101190Francis DrakeEnglish explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596)68
6024102535Glorious RevolutionA reference to the political events of 1688-1689, when James II abdicated his throne and was replaced by his daughter Mary and her husband, Prince William of Orange.69
6024116958joint-stock companiesbusinesses formed by groups of people who jointly make an investment and share in the profits and losses70
6024117809humanismA Renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements71
6024119475Henry VIII(1491-1547) King of England from 1509 to 1547; his desire to annul his marriage led to a conflict with the pope, England's break with the Roman Catholic Church, and its embrace of Protestantism. Established the Church of England in 1532.72
6024120928patronsa person who supports artists, especially financially73
6024124327middle passageA voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies74
6024125364Holy Roman EmpireLoose federation of mostly German states and principalities, headed by an emperor elected by the princes. It lasted from 962 to 1806.75
6024134701Renaissance ManA person who is successful when it comes to working, and overall universal, knew how to dance, fight, sing, write poetry, and how to create art, and well educated with the classics.76
6024135643secularConcerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters77
6024136956vernacularEveryday language of ordinary people78
6024140732Triangular Slave TradeA practice, primarily during the eighteenth century, in which European ships transported slaves from Africa to Caribbean islands, molasses from the Caribbean to Europe, and trade goods from Europe to Africa.79
6024142168Vasco de GamaA Portugese sailor who was the first European to sail around southern Africa to the Indian Ocean80
6024142990westernizationadoption of western ideas, technology, and culture81
6024148260capitalismAn economic system based on private ownership of capital82
6024148261absolutismA form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)83
6024153205St. Ignatius of Loyolafounder of the society of jesus (jesuits)84
6024160103African DiasporaThe separation of Africans from their homeland through centuries of forced removal to serve as slaves in the Americas and elsewhere.85

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