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Fisher Midterm
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Vernacular | Native language of a specific population |
| Machiavellian | Employment of cunning and duplicity in statecraft or in general conduct |
| Fresco | Technique of mural paintings on freshly laid lime plaster |
| Index | European propaganda |
| Excommunication | Kicked out from church |
| Humanism | Belief in mankind |
| Xenophobia | Fear of outside contact |
| Shogun | commander of Japanese army |
| Predestination | Faith chosen in pre-birth |
| Laymen | Members not of the clergy |
| Heretic | Speaker against the church |
| Simony | Act of paying for sacraments |
| Indulgence | Partial remission of temporal punishment |
| Absolutism | Monarch has full rule |
| Swahili | Language spoken by groups that inhabit East Africa |
| Deism | No religious preference |
| Middle Passage | Millions of people from Africa were shipped to the new world |
| Columbia Exchange | Exchange of animal, plants, culture, ect...between the American's and Afro-Eurasions |
| Montezuma's Revenge | TD in Mexico |
| Sultan | Ottoman rule |
| Czar | Another word for ruler |
| Kaiser | German title meaning emperor |
| Divine Right | God Chosen rulers |
| Constituional Monarchy | Ruler has limited power |
| Enlightened Despot | Form of absolute monarchy in which rulers are influenced by the Enlightenment |
| Heliocentric theory | Planets revolve around the sun |
| Old Regime | Old fashion way of life |
| Guillotine | French execution machine |
| Corvee | Unpaid labor required of lower social standing people |
| Tricolor | Frech flag |
| Coalition | Multiple countries |
| Left-wing | Founded on ideas of liberty and equality |
| Coup | Quick Overthrow |
| Jihad | Muslim killing in name of Allah |
| Abdicate | WHen a monarch renounces thier office |
| Reich | One of the three major German empires that existed |
| Suffrage | Right to vote gained through the democrtic process |
| Ethnocentrism | Judging another culture solely by the calues of one's own culture |
| Medieval | Period of European history lasting from 5th until the 15th century |
| Proletariat | A citizen of the lowest class |
| Suffrogette | Member's of woman's suffrage |
| Philosope | Intellectuals of the 18th Century Enlightenment |
| Machiavellian | Employment of cunning and duplicity in statecraft |
| Regicide | Deliberate killing on a monarch |
| Afrikaan | West Germanic language spoken natively in South Africa |
| Mosque | Place of worship for followers of Islam |
| Inquisition | Group of decentralized institutions within the judical system of the Roman Church |
| Enlightenment | Awakening to the true nature of reality in Western history |
| Spanish Armada | Spanish fleet sailed against England under the command of the Duke of Median in 1588 |
| 30 Year War | Series of wars fought against England |
| Storming of the Bastille | Beginning of the French Revolution in which the prison was raided and taken by rebels |
| Reign of Terror | Period of violence after the onset of the revolution by the lowest class in France |
| St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre | Group of assasins directed against the |
| Reformation | 16th cenury schism within Western Christianity by Martin Luther and other protestants |
| Rennaissance | Cultural Movement from the 14th to 17th century |
| Diet of Worms | Assebly of Holy Roman Empire held in Worms, Germany |
| Battke if Trafalgar | FOught by the British against the French and Spanish during th ewar of the third coalition |
| Council of Trent | Ecumenical council of the Roman Church of Italy |
| Battle of Waterloo | French army under command of Napolean defeated by the Seventh Coalition |
| Gutenberg | German Blacksmith that introduced printing in Europe |
| D'Medici | Itialion POpe from 1523 to 1534 |
| Raphael | Italion painter of the high renaissance |
| Shakesphere | English poet and playwright regarded as the greatest writer in the English language |
| Machiavelli | Humanist and writer based in Florence during the Renaisance |
| Da Vinci | Italion painter, sculpter, muscician scienctist, inventer, writer |
| Henry VIII | King of England, 6 wives, seperated from church |
| Charles V | King of Italy 1519-1556 |
| Anne Boleyn | Queen of England and second wife of Henry VIII, exacuted |
| Catherine of Aragon | Spanish queen and 1st wife of Henty |
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