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| 60293543 | Secular | concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters | 0 | |
| 60293544 | Protestant | a member of the christian church founded on the principles of the Reformation | 1 | |
| 60293545 | Indulgences | a pardon relleasing a person from punishments due for a sin, sold by the Catholic church to help raise money | 2 | |
| 60293546 | Predestination | Christian doctrine that God has decided all things beforehand, including which people will be eternally saved | 3 | |
| 60293547 | absolutism | concept of government developed during rise of nation - states in western Europe during the 17th century; featured monarchs who passed laws without parliaments, appointed professionalized armies and bureaucracies, established state churches, imposed state economic policies | 4 | |
| 60293548 | divine right | the idea that monarch are God's representatives on earth and are therefore answerable only to God | 5 | |
| 60293549 | Parliamentary monarchy | originated in England and the Netherlands in the 17th century. Kings are partially checked by significant legislative powers in parliament | 6 | |
| 60293550 | capitalism | an aconomic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures inorder to make a profit | 7 | |
| 60293551 | merchantilism | an economic policy uner which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver an by selling more goods than they bought. | 8 | |
| 60293552 | proletariat | class of working people who do not own property, typically manufacturing workers, paid laborers in agricultural economy, or urban poor. a product of economic changes of the 16th and 17th centuries in Europe | 9 | |
| 60293553 | ethnocentrism | regarding one's own race or cultural group as superior to others | 10 | |
| 60293554 | colonialism | control by one power over a dependant area or people | 11 | |
| 60293555 | coercive | forced labor, including slavery | 12 | |
| 60293556 | encomiendas | a grant of land made by Spain to a settler in the Americas, including the right to use Native Americans as laborers on it. Established a framework for relations based on economic dominance | 13 | |
| 60293557 | conquistador | the spanish soldiers, explorers, and fortune hunters who took part in the conquest of the americas in the 16th century | 14 | |
| 60293558 | mita | forced labor system replacing indian slaves and encomenda workers; used to mobilize laor for mines and other projects. european adaptation of the inca system that required all able - bodied subjects to work for the state a certain number of days each year | 15 | |
| 60293559 | haciendas | rural agricultural and herding estates; produced for consumers in america; basis for wealth and power of the local aristocracy | 16 | |
| 60293560 | peninsulares | spanish - born residents of the New World | 17 | |
| 60293561 | creoles | in spanish colonial society, colonists who were born in Latin America to spanish parents | 18 | |
| 60293562 | galleons | large, heavily armed ships used to carry silver from new world colonies to spain; basis of convoy system utilized for transportation of bullion | 19 | |
| 60293563 | mestizo | mixed spanish and native american ancestry | 20 | |
| 60293564 | columbian exchange | global transfer of food, plants, and animals during the colonization of the americas | 21 | |
| 60293565 | hegemony | the predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others | 22 |
