AP World History: CHP 14 Flashcards

8684126029	creoles	Persons of full-blooded European descent who were born in the Spanish American colonies.	0
8684126659	Enlightenment	Intellectual movement in eighteenth-century Europe stressing natural laws and reason as the basis of authority.	1
8684127156	Forbidden City of Beijing	Palace city of the Ming and Qing dynasties.	2
8684127726	great plaza at Isfahan	The center of Safavid power in the seventeenth century created by Shah Abbas (r. 1587-1629) to represent the unification of trade, government, and religion under one supreme political authority.	3
8684127727	Oceania	Collective name for the lands of Australia and New Zealand and the islands of the southwest Pacific Ocean.	4
8684129842	Palace of Versailles	The palace complex, eleven miles away from the French capital of Paris, built by Louis XIV in the 1670s and 1680s to house and entertain his leading clergymen and nobles, with the hopes of diverting them from plotting against him.	5
8684129843	peninsulares	Spaniards who, although born in Spain, resided in the Spanish colonial territories. They regarded themselves as superior to Spaniards born in the colonies (Creoles).	6
8684130746	philosophes	Enlightenment thinkers who applied scientific reasoning to human interaction and society as opposed to nature.	7
8684131964	scientific method	Method of inquiry based on experimentation in nature. Many of its principles were first laid out by the philosopher Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626), who claimed that real science entailed the formulation of hypotheses that could be tested in carefully controlled experiments.	8
8684131965	Taj Mahal	Royal palace of the Mughal Empire, built by Shah Jahan in the seventeenth century in homage to his wife, Mumtaz.	9