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Unit 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Colonization | establishment of new settlers and their culture in other territories |
| Conquistador | Spanish soldier-explorer |
| Columbian Exchange | exchange of people, plants and animals, and ideas between the Eastern Hemisphere and the Western Hemisphere |
| Indigenous | originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native |
| Plantation | an estate on which crops are cultivated by resident labor |
| Triangular Trade | trade between three regions; trade in the 18th and 19th centuries between Britain (goods), West Africa (slaves), and the Americas (crops) |
| Chattel | property |
| Slavery | ownership and control of other people as property |
| Humanism | a cultural movement of the Renaissance based on the study of classical works |
| Renaissance | French for “rebirth”; refers to a period of cultural revival in Europe from the 1300s to the 1500s |
| Reformation | a religious movement that began in the 1500s to reform the Catholic Church |
| Enlightenment | the action of enlightening or gaining greater knowledge and understanding of something |
| Natural Rights | rights that belong to all people at birth |
| Absolutism | the acceptance of or belief in absolute, or complete, power in political, philosophical, ethical, or theological matters |