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| 331231755 | Renaissance: | the revival of learning and culture | 0 | |
| 331231756 | Conquistadors | spanish soldiers and explorers who led military expeditions in the Americas and captured land for Spain | 1 | |
| 331231757 | Battle of Lepanto: | Turkish sea power was destroyed in 1571 by a league of Christian nations organized by the Pope | 2 | |
| 331231758 | Medici | aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century | 3 | |
| 331231759 | Bourgeoisie | the social class between the lower and upper classes | 4 | |
| 331231760 | Perspective (in art) | development in the Renaissance that included realistic three-dimensional perspective | 5 | |
| 331231761 | Gutenburg Press | a printing device perfected by Johann Gutenberg that could print books 500x as fast as previous methods. Effects: spread literacy, learning, thirst for knowledge, the Bible was printed in a vernacular so that people could understand it. | 6 | |
| 331231762 | Liberalism | a political orientation that favors progress and reform | 7 | |
| 331231763 | The Caravel: | Developed by the Portuguese. They had lateen sails and were easy to handle. The planks were laid edge to edge and they could venture into open seas. They could go on for long voyages and could be changed to square rigging. | 8 | |
| 331231764 | Astolabe | a navigation tool used to help explorers understand their location at sea using the sun and stars | 9 | |
| 331231765 | Sextant | a measuring instrument for measuring the angular distance between celestial objects | 10 | |
| 331231766 | Prince Henry the Navigator: | (1394-1460) Prince of Portugal who established an observatory and school of navigation at Sagres and directed voyages that spurred the growth of Portugal's colonial empire. | 11 | |
| 331231768 | The Spice Islands: | Europeans' name for the Moluccas, islands rich in cloves and nutmeg | 12 | |
| 331231769 | The Dhow | early Arab ships that used lateen sails | 13 | |
| 331231770 | Secular | concerning those not members of the clergy | 14 | |
| 331231772 | Nationalism: | love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it | 15 | |
| 331231773 | Colonialism | exploitation by a stronger country of weaker one | 16 | |
| 331231774 | 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 | 17 |
