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| 268415675 | balance of power | The policy in international relations by which, beginning in the eighteenth century, the major European states acted together to prevent any one of them from becoming too powerful. | 0 | |
| 268415676 | witch hunt | The pursuit of people suspected of witchcraft, especially in northern Europe in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. | 1 | |
| 268415677 | stock exchange | A place where shares in corporations are bought and sold through an organized system | 2 | |
| 268415678 | bourgeoisie | In early modern Europe, the class of well-off town dwellers whose wealth came from manufacturing, finance, commerce, and allied professions. | 3 | |
| 268415679 | little ice age | A century-long period of cool climate that began in the 1590s. Its ill effects on agriculture in northern Europe were notable | 4 | |
| 268415680 | scientific revolution | The intellectual movement in Europe, initially associated with planetary motion and other aspects of physics, that by the seventeenth century had laid the groundwork for modern science. | 5 | |
| 268415681 | caravel | A small, highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic. | 6 | |
| 268415682 | enlightenment | A philosophical movement in eighteenth- century Europe that fostered the belief that one could reform society by discovering rational laws that governed social behavior and were just as scientific as the laws of physics | 7 | |
| 268415683 | arawaks | Amerindian peoples who inhabited the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean at the time of Columbus. | 8 | |
| 268415684 | indulgence | The forgiveness of the punishment due for past sins, granted by the Catholic Church authorities as a reward for a pious act. Martin Luther's protest against the sale of indulgences is often seen as touching off the Protestant Reformation. | 9 | |
| 268415685 | protestant reformation | Religious reform movement within the Latin Christian Church beginning in 1519. It resulted in the "protesters" forming serveral new christian denominations including the Lutheran and Reformed Churches and the Church of England. | 10 | |
| 268415686 | conquistadors | Early-sixteenth-century Spanish adventurers who conquered Mexico, Central America, and Peru. | 11 | |
| 268415687 | christopher columbus | Genoese mariner who in the service of Spain led expeditions across the Atlantic, reestablishing contact between the peoples of the Americas and the Old World and opening the way to Spanish conquest and colonization | 12 | |
| 268415688 | herman cortes | He was a Spanish explorer who conquered the Native American civilization of the Aztecs in 1519 in what is now Mexico. | 13 | |
| 268415689 | francisco pizzaro | Led conquest of Inca Empire of Peru beginning in 1535; by 1540, most of Inca possessions fell to the Spanish | 14 | |
| 268415690 | ferdinand magellen | Portuguese navigator. While tying to find a western route to Asia, he was killed in the Philippines. One of his ships returned to Spain, thereby completing the first circumnavigation of the globe. | 15 | |
| 268415691 | prince henry the navagator | portuguese prince who established a school of navigation to codify and improve natvigational knowledge in the early 15th century. | 16 | |
| 268415692 | bartolemeu diaz | he was the first to round the tip of Africa | 17 | |
| 268415693 | vasco de gama | A Portugese sailor who was the first European to sail around southern Africa to the Indian Ocean | 18 | |
| 268415694 | joint stock company | A business, often backed by a govern- 14 ment charter, that sold shares to individuals to raise money for its trading enterprises and to spread the risks (and prof- its) among many investors. | 19 |
