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| 6694677800 | 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 | |
| 6694677802 | capitalism | An economic system based on private ownership of capital | 1 | |
| 6694677806 | divine right | Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from god. | 2 | |
| 6694677810 | mercantilism | An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought | 3 | |
| 6694677811 | monastic | Relating to or resembling a monastery (where monks or nuns live), esp. by being quiet, secluded, contemplative, strict, and/or lacking luxuries | 4 | |
| 6694677812 | monopoly | A market in which there are many buyers but only one seller. | 5 | |
| 6694677814 | revolution | An overthrow and replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed. | 6 | |
| 6694677815 | satire | A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. | 7 | |
| 6694677816 | utopia | an ideal society | 8 | |
| 6694677817 | hagia sophia | Most famous example of Byzantine architecture, it was built under Justinian I and is considered one of the most perfect buildings in the world. | 9 | |
| 6694677818 | vernacular | Everyday language of ordinary people | 10 | |
| 6694677819 | age of reason | a movement in the 18th century that advocated the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions | 11 | |
| 6694677820 | Akbar the great | known for religious tolerance. grandson of Babur who created a strong central government | 12 | |
| 6694677821 | john calvin | 1509-1564. French theologian. Developed the Christian theology known as Calvinism. Attracted Protestant followers with his teachings. | 13 | |
| 6694677822 | martin luther | A German monk who became one of the most famous critics of the Roman Catholic Chruch. In 1517, he wrote 95 theses, or statements of belief attacking the church practices. He led the Protestant Reformation. | 14 | |
| 6694677823 | Elizabeth I | (1533-1603) Queen of England and Ireland between 1558 and 1603. She was an absolute monarch and is considered to be one of the most successful rulers of all time. | 15 | |
| 6694677825 | encomienda system | It gave settlers the right to tax local Native Americans or to make them work. In exchange, these settlers were supposed to protect the Native American people and convert them to Christianity | 16 | |
| 6694677827 | floating empires | Portuguese and the Spanish set out to sea, controlled many major shipping routes | 17 | |
| 6694677830 | hacienda system | similar to the feudal system, Natives got money and had to buy their products from their owners | 18 | |
| 6694677834 | indulgences | Selling of forgiveness by the Catholic Church. It was common practice when the church needed to raise money. The practice led to the Reformation. | 19 | |
| 6694677835 | dutch east india company | Government-chartered joint-stock company that controlled the spice trade in the East Indies. |  | 20 |
| 6694677837 | counter reformation | the reaction of the Roman Catholic Church to the Reformation reaffirming the veneration of saints and the authority of the Pope (to which Protestants objected) | 21 | |
| 6694677838 | protestant reformation | A religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches. | 22 | |
| 6694677840 | scientific revolution | A major change in European thought, starting in the mid-1500s, in which the study of the natural world began to be characterized by careful observation and the questioning of accepted beliefs. | 23 | |
| 6694677841 | shogun | A general who ruled Japan in the emperor's name | 24 | |
| 6694677843 | thirty years war | Protestant rebellion against the Holy Roman Empire ends with peace of westpahlia.1618-48) A series of European wars that were partially a Catholic-Protestant religious conflict. It was primarily a batlte between France and their rivals the Hapsburg's, rulers of the Holy Roman Empire. | 25 | |
| 6694677844 | 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. | 26 | |
| 6694677845 | zheng he | An imperial eunuch and Muslim, entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean, from Southeast Asia to Africa. | 27 | |
| 6694677847 | janissaries | Infantry, originally of slave origin, armed with firearms and constituting the elite of the Ottoman army from the fifteenth century until the corps was abolished in 1826. | 28 | |
| 6694677849 | peter the great | (1672-1725) Russian tsar (r. 1689-1725). He enthusiastically introduced Western languages and technologies to the Russian elite, moving the capital from Moscow to the new city of St. Petersburg. | 29 |
