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DiCanio Global 2
Global 2 Midterm review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Exploration | the act of looking around some unknown place |
| Conquistador | a Spanish conqueror |
| Encomienda | the Spanish system of forced slavery |
| Abolish | to get rid of something |
| Majority | more than half of a group of people or group of things |
| Habeas Corpus | law that says the government has to charge someone with a crime before putting the person in prison |
| Constitution | a body of laws that states the rights of the people and the power of the government |
| Prejudice | an unfair and unreasonable opinion |
| Enlightened | the state of knowing the truth; moving away from ignorance |
| Treason | going against one's government |
| Nationalism | extreme love and pride for one's country (example: Donald Trump) |
| Monarch | a king or queen |
| Inherit | to gain something, usually money or property, after someone has died |
| Divine Right | the belief that the right to rule came directly from god |
| Tradition | a custom or belief learned from one's parents or ancestors |
| Advisor | a person who helped the king (usually a young king) rule |
| Contract | a legal agreement |
| Ban | to get rid of it; to make something not legal |
| Symphony | a long musical work played by a group of musicians using many different instruments |
| Colombus | made four trips across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain: in 1492, 1493, 1498 and 1502. He was determined to find a direct water route west from Europe to Asia, but he never did. Instead, he accidentally stumbled upon the Americas |
| Cortes | first served as a soldier in an expedition of Cuba led by Diego Velázquez in 1511. He ignored orders and traveled to Mexico with about 500 men and 11 ships in 1519, setting his sights on overthrowing ruler Montezuma II in the Aztec capital of Tenochitilán |
| Da Gama | was a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea. |
| Dias | Portuguese navigator: discoverer of the Cape of Good Hope. |
| Megellan | was a Portuguese explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522, resulting in the first circumnavigation of the Earth |
| Pizarro | a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that conquered the Inca Empire. He captured and killed Incan emperor Atahualpa, and claimed the lands for Spain |
| Prince Henry | a Portuguese royal prince, soldier, and patron of explorers. Henry sent many sailing expeditions down Africa's west coast, but did not go on them himself. ... School of Navigation |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | led a settlement on Roanoake Island |
| Catherine The Great | was Empress of Russia from 1762 until 1796, the country's longest-ruling female leader. She came to power following a coup d'état when her husband, Peter III, was assassinated |
| Charles 1 | Charles I was monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649 |
| Charles 5 | ruler of both the Spanish Empire as Charles I from 1516 and the Holy Roman Empire as Charles V from 1519, as well as of the lands of the former Duchy of Burgundy from 1506. |
| Cromwell | lead the roundheads |
| Hobbes | English philosopher, wrote "Leviathon", believed an absolute monarchy was needed in order to maintain order |
| Isabella | reigned as Queen of Castile from 1474 until her death. Her marriage to Ferdinand II of Aragon became the basis for the political unification of Spain under their grandson, Charles |
| James 1 | was King of Scotland as James VI, and King of England and King of Ireland as James I. He was the first monarch to be called the king of Great Britain. |
| Luis 14 | known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who reigned as King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. |
| Peter The Great | was a Russian czar in the late 17th century who is best known for his extensive reforms in an attempt to establish Russia as a great nation. He created a strong navy |
| Philip 2 | called "the Prudent", was King of Spain, King of Portugal, King of Naples and Sicily, and jure uxoris King of England and Ireland. He was also Duke of Milan. From 1555, he was lord of the Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands. |
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