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Brock AP U3 Terms

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Absolute Monarch   one person has all the power from heredity  
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Agrarian   having to do with farming  
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Atheist   no belief in god  
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Capitalism   private wealth goal to get more wealth  
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Cash crop   grow stuff to sale  
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Circumnavigate   travel all the way around  
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Colonization   outside group rules people somewhere else  
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Commerce   trading stuff/money for stuff/money  
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Commercial   having to do with trading  
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Commonwealth   area founded for the common good  
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Consequences   something that happens in result of something  
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Continuity   something that continues  
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Convent   nun’s house  
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Currency   something used for trade  
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Deists   believe in higher power. passive role  
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Demography   charting the way people are distributed in a place  
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Divine   holy  
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Divine Right   right to rule given by God  
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Dominant   having power  
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Economy   production distribution and consumption  
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Hedonism   do it if it feels good  
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Hinder   stop or slow something  
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Humanism   “Human is the center and measure of all things.”  
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Institution   group founded for specific purpose  
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Jurisdiction   place where you control  
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Left-Wing   liberals who want as much freedoms as possible and wants things to change  
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Mercantilism   more money more power  
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Monarchy   power from heredity  
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Monastic   monks  
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Monk   vow to serve the church and community  
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Monopoly   one business controls the market  
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Monotheism   belief in one god  
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Morality   doing the right thing  
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Nun   married to church and like a female monk  
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Papal   having to do with the Pope (papa)  
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Parliament   legislative government  
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Patriarch   father or head of household  
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Pope   head of Catholic Church  
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Revolution   change in power  
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Right-Wing   conservative  
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Salvation   getting into heaven  
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Sanctioned   within the rules  
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Satire   making fun of something  
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Subsistence   what you need to survive  
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Urbanization   thing becoming city-like or moving to cities  
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Utopia   perfect society  
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Vassals   bound to the lord’s land and protected it  
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Venerate   to have respect for  
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Vernacular   local language that is informal  
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Age of Reason   in Europe when people start to rationalize  
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Akbar the Great   emperor in golden age of Mughal  
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Batavia, Indonesia   Now Jakarta. Important spice trading port.  
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Calvin   predestination and leader of Huguenots  
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Columbian Exchange   stuff from old world to new world and vice versa  
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Counter Reformation   Catholic reforms in response to Luther  
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Dutch East India Company   stock company from Netherlands trading spices  
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Eastern Orthodox   from Byzantine broke from Catholic Church  
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Edict of Nantes   French people could choose to be Catholic or Protestant  
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Edict of Fountainbleu   revoked Nantes  
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Elizabeth I   Bloody Mary’s half-sister. returns to Cath. Elizabethan Age close to Renaissance.  
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Encomienda System   Spanish colonies. Like American feudalism  
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English Bill of Rights   natural rights  
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English Commonwealth   Oliver Cromwell’s government  
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European Exploration   not on the test  
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Floating Empires   countries that control areas by boat  
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Goa, India   On the coast. Converted to Christianity by the Portuguese.  
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Guttenberg’s Printing Press   EUR. moveable type. more literacy  
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Hacienda System   SPN estates like plantations in Southern US  
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Hapsburg Spain   family that ruled.  
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Henry VIII   divorced wife and left Catholic Church started the Anglican Church  
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Heliocentric   sun is center  
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Holy Roman Empire   in the west. GER FR ITL  
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Huguenots   French Protestants  
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Indulgences   donation to church gets you out of purgatory  
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Inquisition   Catholic Church group that stop heretics  
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Janissaries   Christian boys who convert and are the special forces for Islam in OTM  
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Jesuits   Order of Jesus. Group of hardcore Catholic missionaries.  
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Law of Heavenly Bodies   another name for Copernicus’ theory  
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Martin Luther   95 Thesis. Translated Bible to German. Started the reformation.  
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Louis XIV   Sun King. France. Moved the capitol to Versailles.  
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Qing Dynasty   Last dynasty of CHN. Lasts until 1912. Manchurian.  
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Peter the Great   wanted to make RUS like W. EUR. Peter the Poser.  
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Phillip II   fought with ENG (Elizabeth) in 30 Years War.  
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Potosi   Silver mine in Bolivia. Most of silver came from there.  
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Protestant Reformation   led by Luther. Made new church from Catholic.  
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Renaissance   means rebirth. Starts in ITL. Goes back to antiquity.  
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Roman Catholic Church   in Rome  
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Scientific Method   founded by Bacon. Prove theories with re-testable results.  
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Scientific Revolution   after Middle Ages. start thinking logically  
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Shogun   military leaders in Japan  
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Single whip system (silver system)   CHN only takes taxes in silver  
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Straits of Malacca   off Malay Peninsula  
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Suleiman the Magnificent   longest reigning sultan of OTM  
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30 Years War   Spain v. England/Catholic v. Protestant  
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Bakufu System   Feudalism in Japan  
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Treaty of Westphalia   ended 30 Years War  
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The Vatican   Pope lives here  
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Zheng He   CHN Columbus  
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