6525666201 | absolute monarchy | monarch holds executive power | 0 | |
6525668293 | boyars | Russian nobility | 1 | |
6525675235 | cossacks | russian settlers | 2 | |
6525679262 | Criollos (Creoles) | Any person of European or African descent born in parts of Spanish or French America | 3 | |
6525680932 | devshirme | Ottoman system which describes the taking of Christian males, converting them to Muslim then testing them in a series of examinations for intelligence and such allowing them to then serve the state | 4 | |
6525680933 | divine right | idea that rulers are appointed by God | 5 | |
6525710139 | Dutch learning | Rangaku - method by which Japan kept abreast of Western technology and medicine in the period when the country was closed to foreigners, 1641-1853, because of the Tokugawa shogunate's policy of national isolation | 6 | |
6525710140 | encomienda | a grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indian inhabitants of an area. | 7 | |
6525714364 | Enlightenment | 8 | ||
6525714365 | Estates-General | The legistlative body prior to the French Revolution which represented nobility, clergy and the commoners | 9 | |
6525714366 | Glorious Revolution | When William of Orange is named king but signs an agreement with parliament; beginning of constitutional monarchy | 10 | |
6525720234 | Hagia Sophia | Mosque created by the Ottomans as they took over Constantinople | 11 | |
6525720275 | Janissaries | army in Ottoman empire made of Christians of conquered nations | 12 | |
6525724016 | Jesuits | The Society of Jesus | 13 | |
6525724017 | Manchus | Federation of Northeast Asian peoples who founded the Qing Empire | 14 | |
6525724090 | Mercantilism | promoted governmental regulation of a nation's economy for the purpose of augmenting state power at the expense of rival national powers | 15 | |
6525726203 | Mestizos | mixed race;offspring of the Spanish and American Indian usually | 16 | |
6525726204 | Mughal dynasty | In India, attempt to bridge divide between Hindu and Muslim | 17 | |
6525728707 | mulato (mulatto) | a person of mixed white and black ancestry, especially a person with one white and one black parent. | 18 | |
6525730516 | nation-state | a sovereign state whose citizens or subjects are relatively homogeneous in factors such as language or common descent* | 19 | |
6525730517 | parliamentary monarchy | Monarch regulated by parliament, does not have absolute power | 20 | |
6525730518 | peninsulares | Spanish born Spaniard living in Spanish New World | 21 | |
6525733026 | purdah | the practice among women in certain Muslim and Hindu societies of living in a separate room or behind a curtain, or of dressing in all-enveloping clothes, in order to stay out of the sight of men or strangers | 22 | |
6525733027 | Qing dynasty | 23 | ||
6525734862 | Reconquista | Reconquest, in regards to taking back land from Muslims and Jews | 24 | |
6525737162 | repartamiento | colonial forced labor system imposed upon the indigenous population of Spanish America and the Philippines | 25 | |
6525741156 | sovereignty | supreme power or authority | 26 | |
6525741157 | Taj Mahal | Mughal dynasty build | 27 | |
6525743104 | Tokugawa Shogunate | united Japan from shogunate era | 28 | |
6525746392 | Treaty of Tordesillas | divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Portugal and Spain | 29 | |
6525748612 | viceroyalty | the office, position, or authority of a viceroy | 30 | |
6525748613 | capitalism | an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state | 31 | |
6525748614 | caravel | maneuverable Portuguese ship | 32 | |
6525750264 | Columbia Exchange | exchange of goods and disease between the old and new world | 33 | |
6525752222 | factor | 34 | ||
6525754937 | Northwest Passage | passage connecting between Northern Atlantic and Pacific | 35 | |
6525754938 | impressment | refers to the act of taking men into a military or naval force by compulsion, with or without notice | 36 | |
6525754939 | indentured servitude | who signed a contract by which they agreed to work for a certain number of years in exchange for transportation to Virginia and, once they arrived, food, clothing, and shelter | 37 | |
6525756350 | Middle Passage | refers to trade where Africans, densely packed onto ships, were transported across the Atlantic to the West Indie | 38 | |
6525756351 | triangular trade | trade between Africa and colonial nations with slaves, cash crops or manufactured goods | 39 | |
6525759787 | Catholic Reformation (Counter Reformation) | 40 | ||
6525759788 | commercial revolution | period of European expansive, colonialism and mercantilism from 13th to 18th century | 41 | |
6525761592 | Deism | belief in the existence of a supreme being, specifically of a creator who does not intervene in the universe | 42 | |
6525761593 | empirical research | way of gaining knowledge by means of direct and indirect observation or experience | 43 | |
6525761594 | Enlightenment | 44 | ||
6525764473 | laissez-faire economics | system or point of view that opposes regulation or interference by the government in economic affairs beyond the minimum necessary to allow the free enterprise system to operate according to its own laws | 45 | |
6525764474 | natural laws | A concept that early philosophers created; forces of nature that cause natural phenomena to occur, rather than the gods themselves causing the phenomena | 46 | |
6525764475 | Ninety-Five Theses | a bunch of things Martin Luther found wrong with the Catholic Church that should have been reformed | 47 | |
6525766743 | Northern Renaissance | Happened in the Alps, and followed Italian Renaissance; basically shows the extent of its effect* | 48 | |
6525766744 | predestination | the idea that God decided whether or not a person would be saved as soon as they were born | 49 |
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