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| 5766682164 | Absolute monarch | A system of government in which the head of state is a hereditary position and the king or queen has almost complete power | 0 | |
| 5766682165 | Age of Reason | An era during which rational thought is prominent or esteemed, especially the Enlightenment in western Europe | 1 | |
| 5766682166 | Agrarian | of or relating to cultivated land or the cultivation of land. | 2 | |
| 5766682167 | Akbar | son and successor of Humayn; built up military and administrative structure of dynasty; followed policies of cooperation and toleration with the Hindu majority | 3 | |
| 5766682168 | Atheists | People who deny the existence of God | 4 | |
| 5766682169 | Batavia | an ancient name for a region of Holland | 5 | |
| 5766682170 | Capitalism | An economic system based on private ownership of capital | 6 | |
| 5766682171 | Cash crop | a crop produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower. | 7 | |
| 5766682172 | Circumnavigate | sail all the way around (something, especially the world) | 8 | |
| 5766682173 | Colonization | One country taking over another area to be used for their benefit | 9 | |
| 5766682174 | Columbian Exchange | a period of cultural and biological exchanges between the New and Old Worlds | 10 | |
| 5766682175 | Commerce | One country taking over another area to be used for their benefit | 11 | |
| 5766682176 | Commercial | One country taking over another area to be used for their benefit | 12 | |
| 5766682177 | Commonwealth | a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them | 13 | |
| 5766682178 | Convent | a Christian community under monastic vows, especially one of nuns | 14 | |
| 5766682179 | Counter Reformation | the period of Catholic resurgence initiated in response to the Protestant Reformation | 15 | |
| 5766682180 | Deists | belief in the existence of a supreme being, specifically of a creator who does not intervene in the universe | 16 | |
| 5766682181 | Demography | the study of statistics such as births, deaths, income, or the incidence of disease, which illustrate the changing structure of human population | 17 | |
| 5766682182 | Divine | of, from, or like God or a god | 18 | |
| 5766682183 | Divine right | doctrine that kings and queens have a God-given right to rule and that rebellion against them is a sin | 19 | |
| 5766682184 | Dutch East India Company | a chartered company in 1602, when the Dutch government granted it a 21-year monopoly on Dutch spice trade | 20 | |
| 5766682185 | Eastern Orthodox | the Eastern churches that form a loose federation according primacy of honor to the patriarch of Constantinople | 21 | |
| 5766682186 | Economy | the wealth and resources of a country or region, especially in terms of the production and consumption of goods and services | 22 | |
| 5766682187 | Edict of Fountainbleu | an edict issued by Louis XIV of France, granted the Huguenots the right to practice their religion without persecution from the state. | 23 | |
| 5766682188 | Edict of Nantes | granted the Huguenots substantial rights in the France, which was still considered essentially Catholic at the time | 24 | |
| 5766682189 | Elizabeth I | reestablished Protestantism in England, defeated the Spanish Armada and achieved domestic and literary prosperity | 25 | |
| 5766682190 | Encomienda System | legal system by which the Spanish crown attempted to define the status of the Indian population in its American colonies | 26 | |
| 5766682191 | English Bill of Rights | a British Law that declared the rights and liberties of the people following the Glorious Revolution | 27 | |
| 5766682192 | English Commonwealth | a political community founded for the common good | 28 | |
| 5766682193 | European Exploration | one of the most important periods of geographical exploration in human history | 29 | |
| 5766682194 | Floating Empires | when the Portuguese and Spanish armadas set out to sea | 30 | |
| 5766682195 | Goa | A state of southwestern India; a former Portuguese colony | 31 | |
| 5766682196 | Hacienda System | a Spanish word for an estate | 32 | |
| 5766682197 | Hapsburgs | a German princely family, from 1440 to 1806, the Hapsburgs wore the imperial crown of the Holy Roman Empire | 33 | |
| 5766682198 | Hedonism | the pursuit of pleasure; sensual self-indulgence | 34 | |
| 5766682199 | Heliocentric Theory | world revolves around the sun | 35 | |
| 5766682200 | Henry VIII | A king of England in the early sixteenth century, established himself as head of the Christian Church | 36 | |
| 5766682201 | Holy Roman Empire | political institution in Europe that lasted from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries, loosely organized and modeled somewhat on the ancient Roman Empire | 37 | |
| 5766682202 | Huguenots | a French Protestant of the 16th-17th centuries | 38 | |
| 5766682203 | Humanism | a Renaissance cultural movement that turned away from medieval scholasticism and revived interest in ancient Greek and Roman thought | 39 | |
| 5766682204 | Indulgences | Paid remission of sin sold by the catholic church | 40 | |
| 5766682205 | Inquisition | an ecclesiastical tribunal established for the suppression of heresy (like Protestantism) | 41 | |
| 5766682206 | Institution | a society or organization founded for a religious, educational, social, or similar purpose | 42 | |
| 5766682207 | Janissary Corps | an elite corps of Turkish troops | 43 | |
| 5766682208 | Jesuit Order | a Roman Catholic order founded to defend Catholicism against the Reformation and to do missionary work among the heathen | 44 | |
| 5766682209 | John Calvin | French theologian and reformer in Switzerland: leader in the Protestant Reformation | 45 | |
| 5766682210 | Jurisdiction | the extent of the power to make legal decisions and judgments | 46 | |
| 5766682211 | Law of Heavenly Bodies | heavenly bodies were in constant rotation | 47 | |
| 5766682212 | Left-wing | those who support varying degrees of social or political or economic change designed to promote the public welfare | 48 | |
| 5766682213 | Louis XIV | absolute monarch that built up France's internal strength (finance and military) strengthened army, connected France through trade, catholic | 49 | |
| 5766682214 | Manchu (Qing) | the last imperial dynasty of China (from 1644 to 1912) which was overthrown by revolutionaries | 50 | |
| 5766682215 | Martin Luther | German theologian who led the Reformation- believed that salvation is granted on the basis of faith rather than deeds | 51 | |
| 5766682216 | Mercantilism | an economic system to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests | 52 | |
| 5766682217 | Monarchy | a form of government with a monarch at the head | 53 | |
| 5766682218 | Monastic | related to monks or monasteries; removed from worldly concerns | 54 | |
| 5766682219 | Monk | a religious man living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work | 55 | |
| 5766682220 | Monopoly | Exclusive control of a commodity or service in a particular market, or a control that makes possible the manipulation of prices | 56 | |
| 5766682221 | Monotheism | the doctrine or belief that there is only one God | 57 | |
| 5766682222 | Morality | concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong | 58 | |
| 5766682223 | Nun | a female who dedicates her life to God; avoids the things of the world | 59 | |
| 5766682224 | Papacy/papal | the government of the Roman Catholic Church | 60 | |
| 5766682225 | Parliament | a legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Great Britain) | 61 | |
| 5766682226 | Patriarch | the male head of a family or tribe | 62 | |
| 5766682227 | Peter the Great | ruled Russia from 1682 to 1725, wanted closer ties to western Europe, modernize and strengthen Russia | 63 | |
| 5766682228 | Philip II | supported the Counter Reformation and sent the Spanish Armada to invade England, a intolerant, Catholic king. | 64 | |
| 5766682229 | Pope | the head of the Roman Catholic Church | 65 | |
| 5766682230 | Potosi Silver Mine | a silver mine in Potosí, Bolivia- people involved got very rich- during 16th century Spain | 66 | |
| 5766682231 | Printing Press | invented by Johann Gutenberg in 1454; changed private and public lives of Europeans | 67 | |
| 5766682232 | Protestant Reformation | a religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted creation of Protestant churches | 68 | |
| 5766682233 | Renaissance | great period of rebirth in art, literature, and learning in the 14th-16th centuries, marked the transition into the modern periods of European history | 69 | |
| 5766682234 | Revolution | a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving | 70 | |
| 5766682235 | Right-wing | those who support political or social or economic conservatism; those who believe that things are better left unchanged | 71 | |
| 5766682236 | Roman Catholic Church | the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy | 72 | |
| 5766682237 | Salvation | the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil | 73 | |
| 5766682238 | Sanctioned | formally approved and invested with legal authority; conforming with orthodox values | 74 | |
| 5766682239 | Satire | witty language used to convey insults or scorn | 75 | |
| 5766682240 | Scientific Method | a series of steps followed to solve problems, including collecting data, formulating a hypothesis, testing the hypothesis, and stating conclusions | 76 | |
| 5766682241 | Scientific Revolution | an era between 16th and 18th centuries when scientists began doing research in a new way using the scientific method | 77 | |
| 5766682242 | Shogun | a hereditary military dictator of Japan | 78 | |
| 5766682243 | Single Whip System | imposed by Chief Grand Secretary Zhang Juzheng ordered that all land taxes in China must be paid in silver. This reform monetized the Chinese tax system. | 79 | |
| 5766682244 | Straits of Malacca | well-traveled stretch of water between Malaysia and Indonesia used for trade along the Spice Route | 80 | |
| 5766682245 | Subsistence | the action or fact of maintaining or supporting oneself at a minimum level; the state of remaining in force or effect | 81 | |
| 5766682246 | Suleiman the Magnificent | most illustrious sultan of the Ottoman Empire, significantly expanded the empire in the Balkans and eastern Mediterranean. | 82 | |
| 5766682247 | The Vatican | an assembly of all the bishops of the Roman Catholic Church | 83 | |
| 5766682248 | Thirty Years War | series of European wars that were partially a Catholic-Protestant religious conflict, France vs Hapsburg rulers of holy Roman Empire | 84 | |
| 5766682249 | Tokugawa Bakufu System | feudal regime of Japan established by Tokugawa Ieyasu and ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family, edo period | 85 | |
| 5766682250 | Treaty of Westphalia | Ended Thirty Years War in 1648; granted right to individual rulers within the Holy Roman Empire to choose their own religion-either Protestant or Catholic | 86 | |
| 5766682251 | Urbanization | becoming more like a city | 87 | |
| 5766682252 | Utopian | characterized by or aspiring to impracticable perfection | 88 | |
| 5766682253 | Vassals | a holder of land by feudal tenure on conditions of homage and allegiance | 89 | |
| 5766682254 | Venerate | to honor, admire, and regard with respect (esp. a Saint) | 90 | |
| 5766682255 | Vernacular | being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language | 91 | |
| 5766682256 | Zheng He | An imperial eunuch, Muslim, entrusted by the Ming, took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean, from Southeast Asia to Africa. | 92 |
