Unit 3 & 4 terms Flashcards

306562641	technology	tools and skills people use to meet their basic needs	0
306562642	textiles	cloth	1
306562643	schism	division of a group into opposing factions	2
306562644	doctrinal differences	The use of documents to compare and contrast two religions.	3
306562645	epidemic disease	any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people	4
306562646	guilds	Association of merchants or artisans who cooperated to protect their economic interests	5
306562647	tax-farming	collection of excessive taxes	6
306562648	city states	a city and its surrounding lands functioning as an independent political unit	7
306562649	sovereignty	government free from external control	8
306562650	state	a politically organized body of people under a single government	9
306562651	empire	a group of countries under a single authority	10
306562652	tax revenue	government income due to taxation	11
306562653	ideology	a system of ideas and ideals, esp. one that forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy	12
306562654	inequality	lack of equality	13
306562655	trade goods	articles of commerce	14
306562656	mercenaries	hired foreign soldiers	15
306562657	diasporas	forced exodus from their lands of origin	16
306562659	syncretism	the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)	17
306562661	tribute system	A system in which defeated peoples were forced to pay a tax in the form of goods and labor. This forced transfer of food, cloth, and other goods subsidized the development of large cities. An important component of the Aztec and Inca economies.	18
306562662	infidel	a person who does not acknowledge your God	19
306562663	chartered cities	A charter city is a city in which the governing system is defined by the city's own charter document rather than by state, provincial, regional or national laws.	20
306562664	usury	the act of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest	21
306562665	sacrament	one of the Christian ceremonies in which God's grace is transmitted to people	22
306562666	caravel	A small, highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic.	23
306562668	tariffs	Taxes on imports or exports	24
306562670	conquistadors	spanish soldiers and explorers who led military expeditions in the Americas and captured land for Spain	25
306562672	absolutism	the doctrine of an absolute being	26
306562674	joint-stock companies	an association of individuals in a business enterprise with transferable shares of stock, much like a corporation except that stockholders are liable for the debts of the business	27
306562675	trade diasporas	people who lived in outskirts of a city to trade with other places	28
306562676	excommunication	the act of banishing a member of the Church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the Church	29
306562677	slave trade	The business of capturing, transporting, and selling people as slaves	30
306562679	manumission	the formal act of freeing from slavery	31
306562680	renaissance	the revival of learning and culture	32
306562682	protestant	the Protestant churches and denominations collectively	33
306562684	coerced labor system	Forced Labor	34
306562686	mercantilism	transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)	35