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| 333750793 | Divine Rights of Kings | A theory that assumed that God appointed all monarchs to rule on his behalf. Therefore, any policy, decree, plan, or approach adopted by royalty could not be questioned or disobeyed. | 0 | |
| 333750794 | Creole | a white person born in Spanish America of Spanish parents | 1 | |
| 333750795 | Mestizo | a person of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry) | 2 | |
| 333750796 | Social Contract | an implicit agreement among people that results in the organization of society | 3 | |
| 333750797 | Empiricism | the theory that all knowledge originates in experience | 4 | |
| 333750798 | Philosophes | Thinkers of the Enlightenment; Wanted to educate the socially elite, but not the masses; were not allowed to openly criticize church or state, so used satire and double-meaning in their writings to avoid being banned; Salons held by wealthy women also kept philosophes safe; They considered themselves part of an intellectual community, and wrote back and forth to each other to share ideas. | 5 | |
| 333911835 | enlightened despotism | a system of government in which the ruler has absolute rights over his or her subjects, but uses this power for their benefit | 6 | |
| 333911836 | bourgeoisie | a french word to identify with employers, and members of the 'middle class', professionals, artisans, and shopkeepers. | 7 | |
| 333911837 | jacobins | The most radical party of the French Revolution | 8 | |
| 333911838 | Giorndins | French Revolutionary group formed largely from the middle class. | 9 | |
| 333911839 | Montagnards | radical French Revolutionary party, closely associated with the Jacobins and supported by the artisans, and shopkeepers. | 10 | |
| 333911840 | sansculotte | members of the militant, generally poorer classes of paris, so-called because they wore trousers rather than the knee-breeches of affluent society. | 11 | |
| 333911841 | balance of power | a policy that aims to secure peace by preventing any one state or alighment of states from becoming too dominant. | 12 | |
| 333911842 | mulatto | a person of mixed race, usually with parents of European and African origin | 13 | |
| 333911843 | vodoun | the popular religious cult of haiti, as well as other areas of the Caribbean. | 14 | |
| 333911844 | mazombo | a direct descendant of portuguese settlers in the Americas | 15 | |
| 333911845 | neo-colonialism | the control exercised by a state or group of states of the developed world over the economies and societies of the developing world. | 16 | |
| 333911846 | enclosure acts | laws passed in England in the late 1700s and 1800s that converted public lands held in common into parcels of land to be sold to private owners. | 17 | |
| 333911847 | cartel | An association of independent producers or businessmen whose aim is to control the supply of a particular commodity | 18 | |
| 333911848 | proletariat | In marxist theory, those who live solely by the sale of their labor | 19 | |
| 333911849 | extraterritoriality | Legal immunities enjoyed by the citizens of a sovereign state or international organization within a host country | 20 | |
| 333911850 | Shogun | The military leader who ruled Japan in the name of the emperor | 21 | |
| 333911851 | Meiji Restoration | The Reforms effected in japan in the name of the emperor Mutsihito, who was known as the Meiji emperor. | 22 |
