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World History 13-15
World History terms Vocab for chapter 13-15
Term | Definition |
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John Calvin | 2nd intellectual leader of the Protestant reformation |
massacre of St. Bartholomew's day | A marriage between a Protestant Women and a Catholic Man gone wrong. The Proestant family was murdered. |
the defenestration of Prague | Protestant nobles through catholic people out a 70 ft window. |
The Peace of Westphalia | France comes out of top after the 30 year war and Spain is weaken due to inflation and on going warfare. |
Thomas Hobbes | Argued that man is naturally evil, or a “wolf.” Without govt., life is, “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” |
Alternatives to Absolutism | constitutional monarchy. |
French Colonial Plantations | Mostly in the Caribbean and Columbia, France made 40% of the worlds sugar and 50% of the worlds coffee. |
Mercantilism | Reducing imports & increasing exports.” Higher tariffs on imported goods, more money spent on making things domestically. |
The Glorious Revolution | Britain shifts from a absolute monarchy to a constitutional monarchy. |
John Locke & the Writings of Government | Humans natural condition was absolute freedom w/out govt. |