Chapter 18 (AP World History) Flashcards
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| 8728978481 | Agricultural revolution | The shift from gathering food to raising food | 0 | |
| 8728978487 | Balance of power | distribution of military and economic power that prevents any one nation from becoming too strong | 1 | |
| 8728981863 | Cottage industry | A method of production in which tasks are done by individuals in their rural homes | 2 | |
| 8728984284 | Enclosure movement | practice of fencing or enclosing common lands into individual holdings | 3 | |
| 8728987084 | Enlightened absolutism | Rulers tried to govern by Enlightenment principles while maintaining their royal powers. | 4 | |
| 8728991229 | Limited monarchy | government in which a constitution or legislative body limits the monarch's powers | 5 | |
| 8728996133 | Orders/estates | Where the patrons of the arts lived | 6 | |
| 8728999830 | Primogeniture | A system of inheritance in which the eldest son in a family received all of his father's land. | 7 | |
| 8729002541 | Reason of state | where a ruler looks beyond dynastic interests and focuses on the betterment of the state | 8 | |
| 8729004170 | Tithe | A family's payment of one-tenth of its income to a church | 9 |