For Mr. Hazlett's 1st Period APWH class
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| 292253211 | Indentured Labor | Labor performed under signed indenture, or contract, which binds the laborer to work for a specific employer, for a specific time, usually years, often in a distant place, in exchange for transportation and maitenance. | 0 | |
| 292253212 | Madrasa | A traditional Islamic school of higher education, principally of theology and law, literally a "place of study." The madrasa usually comprised a central courtyard surrounded by rooms in which the students resided and a prayer room or mosque, where instruction to place. | 1 | |
| 292253213 | Divine Rights of Kings | A political doctrine influential during the 16th and 17th centuries. It held that a monarch derived his authority from God and was therefore not accountable to earthly authority. | 2 | |
| 292253214 | Creole | In the 16th to 18th centuries, a white person born in Spanish America of Spanish parents | 3 | |
| 292253215 | Mestizo | A person of mixed race. In Central and South America is usually denotes a person of combined Native American and European descent. | 4 | |
| 292253216 | Social Contract | A mythical, unwritten agreement among early people in a "state of nature" to establish some form of government. This "contract" generally defines the rights and obligations of the individuals and the government. | 5 | |
| 292253217 | Empiricism | The theory that all knowledge originates in experience, the practice of relying on direct observation of events and experience for determining reality. | 6 | |
| 292253218 | Philosophes | A group of 18th century French writers & philosophers who emphasized the supremacy of human reason and advocated freedom of expression and social, economic, and political reform. They included Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rouseau, and Diderot, editor of the ECYCLOPEDIE (1751-72), which embodied many of their ideas. | 7 | |
| 292253219 | Bourgeoisie | A French word that originally applied to the inhabitants of walled towns, between the rural peasantry and the feudal aristocracy, with the development of industry, it became identified more with employers, as wel as with other members of the "middle-class", professionals, artisans, and shopkeepers. | 8 | |
| 292253220 | Econometrics | The use of statistical techniques and mathematical models to analyze economic relationships. Econometics may be applied by a government or private business to test the validity of an economic theory, or to forecast future trends. | 9 | |
| 292253221 | 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. | 10 |
