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Explo/ Enlightenment
Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| patron | a person who gives financial or other support to a person, organization, cause, or activity |
| indulgence | (in the Roman Catholic Church) a grant by the pope of remission of the temporal punishment in purgatory still due for sins after absolution. The unrestricted sale of indulgences by pardoners was a widespread abuse during the later Middle Ages. |
| secular | denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis |
| expression | the process of making known one's thoughts or feelings |
| relic | an object surviving from an earlier time, especially one of historical or sentimental interest |
| status quo | the existing state of affairs, especially regarding social or political issues |
| theocracy | a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god |
| sacred | connected with God (or the gods) or dedicated to a religious purpose and so deserving veneration or praise |
| reform | make changes in (something, typically a social, political, or economic institution or practice) in order to improve it |
| corruption | dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery |
| linear perspective | a type of perspective used by artists in which the relative size, shape, and position of objects are determined by drawn or imagined lines converging at a point on the horizon. |
| realism | the quality or fact of representing a person, thing, or situation accurately or in a way that is true to life |
| radical | advocating or based on thorough or complete political or social reform; representing or supporting an extreme section of a political party. |
| doctrine | a belief or set of beliefs held and taught by a church, political party, or other group |
| vernacular | the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region |
| route | a way or course taken in getting from a starting point to a destination. |
| conquest | the subjugation and assumption of control of a place or people by use of military force |
| global | of or relating to the whole world; worldwide |
| interdependence | mutual dependence between things; a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups) |
| imperialism | a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force |
| epidemic | a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time |
| pandemic | prevalent over a whole country or the world |
| impact | the action of one object coming forcibly into contact with another |
| colony | a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country |
| missionary | a person sent on a religious mission, especially one sent to promote Christianity in a foreign country |
| racism | the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races |
| capitalism | an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state |
| mercantilism | the economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government should encourage by means of protectionism |
| ethnocentric | evaluating other peoples and cultures according to the standards of one's own culture |
| encomienda | a grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indian inhabitants of an area |
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