ap world history terms unit 3 and 4
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| 306711261 | Technology | the practical application of science to commerce or industry, cloth | 0 | |
| 306711262 | Schism | division of a group into opposing factions | 1 | |
| 306711263 | Epidemic, disease | a disease that majorly impacts an area or civilization and effects a large amount of the population | 2 | |
| 306711264 | guilds | Association of merchants or artisans who cooperated to protect their economic interests, selling the right to collect taxes to private individuals called tax farmers | 3 | |
| 306711265 | City state, Sovereignty | Different sections of land owned by the same country but ruled by different rulers, government free from external control | 4 | |
| 306711266 | Mercenaries | hired soldiers, the migration of religious or ethnic groups to foreign lands despite their continued affiliation with the land and customs of their origin | 5 | |
| 306711267 | Syncretism, Tribute system | the fusion of originally different inflected forms, the system of an empire taxing conquered territories in either money or goods | 6 | |
| 306711268 | infidel | a person who does not acknowledge your God | 7 | |
| 306711269 | Chartered Cities | 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. | 8 | |
| 306711270 | Usury | the act of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest | 9 | |
| 306711271 | caravel, tariffs | A small, highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic, Taxes on imports or exports | 10 | |
| 306711272 | Conquistadors | spanish soldiers and explorers who led military expeditions in the Americas and captured land for Spain | 11 | |
| 306711273 | Absolutism | a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | 12 | |
| 306711274 | Joint-stock companies | an association of individuals in a business enterprise with transferable shares of stock, much like a corporation except that stockholders are liable for the debts of the business | 13 | |
| 306711275 | trade diasporas | people who lived in outskirts of a city to trade with other places | 14 | |
| 306711276 | excommunication | the act of banishing a member of the Church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the Church | 15 | |
| 306711277 | Slave trade, manumission | traffic in slaves, the formal act of freeing from slavery | 16 | |
| 306711278 | Renaissance | The great period of rebirth in art, literature, and learning in the 14th-16th centuries, which marked the transition into the modern periods of European history | 17 | |
| 306711279 | Protestant | a member of a Christian church founded on the principles of the Reformation. | 18 | |
| 306711280 | Coerced labor systems | forced labor: indentured slaves, serfs, slaves. | 19 | |
| 306711281 | mercantilism | an economic system (Europe in 18th C) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests | 20 |
