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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| indulgence | a document whose purchase was said to grant bearer the forgiveness of sins |
| enlightenment | a philosophical movement in 1700s Europe that was based on reason and the concept that education and training could improves human society |
| encomienda | a practice in the Spanish colonies that granted land and the labor of native Americans on that land to European colonists |
| devershime | a practice of the ottoman empire to take Christian boys from their home communities to serve as janissaries |
| creoles | a term used in colonial Spanish america to describe a person born in the American of European parents |
| emprical research | a way of gaining knowledge by means of direct observations or experience |
| factor | an agent with trade privileges in early russia |
| capitalism | an economic system that holds that the government should not interfere with or regulate business and industries |
| absolute monarchy | Rule by king or queen whose power is not listed by a constitution |
| boyars | Russian nobility |
| cossacks | Russians who conquered and settled Siberia in the 1500-1600 |
| divine right | the belief of absolute rulers that their right to govern is granted by god |
| glorious revolution | the bloodless overthrow english king James 1 and the placement of Williams and Mary on the English throne |
| hagia sophia | the church in constantinople that was conserved ==Ted to a mosque after the ottoman conquest |
| deism | the concept of God common to the scientific revolution |
| Columbian exchange | the exchange of food crops livestock and diseases between eastern and western hemispheres after the voyages of columbus |
| commercial exchange | the expansion of trade and commerce in Europe in 1500- 1600 |
| catholic reformation | the religious reform movement within the RCC that occured in response to the protestant reformation |
| estates general | the traditional legislative body of france |
| dutch learning | western learning embrace by some Japanese in 1700 |