Period 4: AP World History Flashcards

13915308874	Absolutism	A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator	0
13915312878	Astrolabe	Instrument that uses star to find latitude	1
13915329475	Atlantic Slave Trade	Trade across the Atlantic from Africa to Europe to North America	2
13915336857	Balance of Power	Condition of roughly equal strength between opposing countries or alliances of countries	3
13915341050	Biological diffusion	Global diffusion of plants and food	4
13915356116	Boyars	Russian nobles	5
13915360253	Codices	Mayan texts on long sheets written in bright color	6
13915369566	Colinization	the process of colonizing land	7
13915377142	Columbian Exchange	Exchange of plants animals and ideas from New and Old World	8
13915383966	Conduits	Agencies and private companies	9
13915394869	Conquistadores	Spanish conquerors of the New World	10
13915401603	Creoles	Spanish born in Latin America	11
13915410928	Debt Peonage	A system of binding a person to slavery to pay off a debt	12
13915443037	Devshirme	Ottoman policy of taking boys for military service	13
13915448673	Dhimmi	People who live in Muslim Land but are not Muslim	14
13915463929	Divine right	Monarchy is given by God	15
13915470298	Encomienda	A grant of land made by Spain in exchange for the conversion of all Amerindians in the area to Christianity	16
13915482862	Enlightenment	A philosophical movement that emphasized science and reason to society	17
13915491750	Hacienda	Spanish plantations in the Americas	18
13915500644	harem	"sacred place"; the private domain of an Ottoman sultan, where he and his wives resided	19
13915504282	Indentured servant	Someone who was bound to labor for a certain amount of time in exchange for travel	20
13915510853	Janissaries	Ottoman soldiers who had been converted to Islamic beliefs	21
13915517672	joint-stock company	A company that is made up of share holders who buy into a company	22
13915530862	Literacy	the number of people who read in an area	23
13915534451	Local resistance	- food riots - Samurai revolts - Peasant uprisings	24
13915540647	Manila Galleon	Spanish trade ships that sailed across the Pacific Ocean	25
13915552649	Maroon	A slave who ran away from his owner	26
13915557707	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	27
13915561252	Mestizo	A person of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry	28
13915566125	Mulattoes	People of African and European descent	29
13915570450	Middle Passage	A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America	30
13915581628	Peninsulares	Spanish-born, came to Latin America; ruled, highest social class	31
13915584760	Plantation system	Agricultural production with many slaves	32
13915587982	Predominance	pre-destined superiority	33
13915597232	Protestantism	the faith, practice, and church order of the Protestant churches.	34
13915601366	Repartimiento	Spanish forcing of Natives to do slave labor for a certain amount of time	35
13915611274	royal charted monopoly	Association of trade companies and merchants who controlled all of explored areas under a royal degree	36
13915628201	Scientific revolution	Major change in European thought too a more scientific outlook on society	37
13915632423	Sikhism	Monotheistic doctrines in Northern India combining Hinduism and Islam	38
13915639572	Social contract	An agreement between the people and their government signifying their consent to be governed	39
13915642550	Triangular Trade	Trade between Europe, America, and Africa	40
13915648447	Viccroy	a governor who rules in the name of a king	41
13915654953	Vodun	African religious ideas and practices among descendants of African slaves	42
13915658144	Westernization	adoption of western ideas, technology, and culture	43
13915663771	Zen	The Japanese word for a branch of Mahayana Buddhism based on highly disciplined meditation	44