Chapters 16-17 key terms and people.
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| Henry the Navigator | (1394-1460) Prince of Portugal,he helped promote exploration by Portuguese sailors.
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| Vasco da Gama | Sailed around Africa and landed on India's coast.
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| Christopher Columbus | (1451-1506) Italian sailor supported by the rulers of Spain, he reached the Americas in 1492.
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| Ferdinand Magellan | (1480-1521)Portuguese sailor who sailed for Spain,his crew was the first to circumnavigate the world.
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| Circumnavigate | To go all the way around.
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| Francis Drake | (1540-1596) English sailor, he was sent to the Americas to steal gold and silver from Spanish ships.
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| Spanish Armada | A large fleet of Spanish ships that was defeated by England in 1588.
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| Columbian Exchange | The exchange of plants, animals, and ideas between the New World and the Old World.
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| Plantations | Large farms.
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| Bartolome de las Casas | A priest who said that the Spanish should convert the American Indians by being kind and gentle.
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| Racism | The belief that some people are better than others be cause of racial traits,
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| Mercantilism | A system in which the government all economic activity in a country and its colonies to make the government stronger and richer.
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| Balance of Trade | The relationship of goods imported to goods exported.
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| Cottage Industry | A system in which family members worked in their homes to make part of a product.
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| Atlas | Collection of maps.
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| Capitalism | An economic system in which individuals and private businesses run most industries.
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| Market Economy | Individuals decide what goods and services they will buy.
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| Enlightenment | A period when reason was used to guide people thoughts about society, politics, and philosophy.
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| Secular | Non-religious.
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| Voltaire | (1694-1778) French philosopher, he mocked government and religion in his writings.
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| Salon | A social gathering held to share ideas.
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| Mary Wollstonecraft | (1759-1797) British Writer, she argued women should have the same rights as men.
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| John Locke | (1632-1704) English philosopher he thought that government was a contract between the ruler and the people.
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| Natural Rights | The belief that people had rights to life, liberty, and property.
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| Charles-Louis Montesquieu | (1689-1755) French Enlightenment thinker he believed that the government should be spit to protect peoples freedom.
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| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | (1712-1788) French philosopher, he believed in popular sovereignty and the social contract between citizens and the government.
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| Popular Sovereignty | The idea that governments should express the will of the people.
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| Benjamin Franklin | (1706-1790) American colonial leader, he argued that the British had no right to tax the colonist because the had no representative in Parliament.
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| Thomas Jefferson | (1743-1826) American colonial leader and the author of the Declaration of Independence, he believed Britain had no right to govern colonies.
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| English Bill of Rights | A document that listed rights for English people and Parliament.
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| Declaration of Independence | A document that declared the American colonies independence from British rule.
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| Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen | A document written in France listing rights for French citizens.
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