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AP U3 Terms
Brock AP U3 Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Absolute Monarch | one person has all the power from heredity |
| Agrarian | having to do with farming |
| Atheist | no belief in god |
| Capitalism | private wealth goal to get more wealth |
| Cash crop | grow stuff to sale |
| Circumnavigate | travel all the way around |
| Colonization | outside group rules people somewhere else |
| Commerce | trading stuff/money for stuff/money |
| Commercial | having to do with trading |
| Commonwealth | area founded for the common good |
| Consequences | something that happens in result of something |
| Continuity | something that continues |
| Convent | nun’s house |
| Currency | something used for trade |
| Deists | believe in higher power. passive role |
| Demography | charting the way people are distributed in a place |
| Divine | holy |
| Divine Right | right to rule given by God |
| Dominant | having power |
| Economy | production distribution and consumption |
| Hedonism | do it if it feels good |
| Hinder | stop or slow something |
| Humanism | “Human is the center and measure of all things.” |
| Institution | group founded for specific purpose |
| Jurisdiction | place where you control |
| Left-Wing | liberals who want as much freedoms as possible and wants things to change |
| Mercantilism | more money more power |
| Monarchy | power from heredity |
| Monastic | monks |
| Monk | vow to serve the church and community |
| Monopoly | one business controls the market |
| Monotheism | belief in one god |
| Morality | doing the right thing |
| Nun | married to church and like a female monk |
| Papal | having to do with the Pope (papa) |
| Parliament | legislative government |
| Patriarch | father or head of household |
| Pope | head of Catholic Church |
| Revolution | change in power |
| Right-Wing | conservative |
| Salvation | getting into heaven |
| Sanctioned | within the rules |
| Satire | making fun of something |
| Subsistence | what you need to survive |
| Urbanization | thing becoming city-like or moving to cities |
| Utopia | perfect society |
| Vassals | bound to the lord’s land and protected it |
| Venerate | to have respect for |
| Vernacular | local language that is informal |
| Age of Reason | in Europe when people start to rationalize |
| Akbar the Great | emperor in golden age of Mughal |
| Batavia, Indonesia | Now Jakarta. Important spice trading port. |
| Calvin | predestination and leader of Huguenots |
| Columbian Exchange | stuff from old world to new world and vice versa |
| Counter Reformation | Catholic reforms in response to Luther |
| Dutch East India Company | stock company from Netherlands trading spices |
| Eastern Orthodox | from Byzantine broke from Catholic Church |
| Edict of Nantes | French people could choose to be Catholic or Protestant |
| Edict of Fountainbleu | revoked Nantes |
| Elizabeth I | Bloody Mary’s half-sister. returns to Cath. Elizabethan Age close to Renaissance. |
| Encomienda System | Spanish colonies. Like American feudalism |
| English Bill of Rights | natural rights |
| English Commonwealth | Oliver Cromwell’s government |
| European Exploration | not on the test |
| Floating Empires | countries that control areas by boat |
| Goa, India | On the coast. Converted to Christianity by the Portuguese. |
| Guttenberg’s Printing Press | EUR. moveable type. more literacy |
| Hacienda System | SPN estates like plantations in Southern US |
| Hapsburg Spain | family that ruled. |
| Henry VIII | divorced wife and left Catholic Church started the Anglican Church |
| Heliocentric | sun is center |
| Holy Roman Empire | in the west. GER FR ITL |
| Huguenots | French Protestants |
| Indulgences | donation to church gets you out of purgatory |
| Inquisition | Catholic Church group that stop heretics |
| Janissaries | Christian boys who convert and are the special forces for Islam in OTM |
| Jesuits | Order of Jesus. Group of hardcore Catholic missionaries. |
| Law of Heavenly Bodies | another name for Copernicus’ theory |
| Martin Luther | 95 Thesis. Translated Bible to German. Started the reformation. |
| Louis XIV | Sun King. France. Moved the capitol to Versailles. |
| Qing Dynasty | Last dynasty of CHN. Lasts until 1912. Manchurian. |
| Peter the Great | wanted to make RUS like W. EUR. Peter the Poser. |
| Phillip II | fought with ENG (Elizabeth) in 30 Years War. |
| Potosi | Silver mine in Bolivia. Most of silver came from there. |
| Protestant Reformation | led by Luther. Made new church from Catholic. |
| Renaissance | means rebirth. Starts in ITL. Goes back to antiquity. |
| Roman Catholic Church | in Rome |
| Scientific Method | founded by Bacon. Prove theories with re-testable results. |
| Scientific Revolution | after Middle Ages. start thinking logically |
| Shogun | military leaders in Japan |
| Single whip system (silver system) | CHN only takes taxes in silver |
| Straits of Malacca | off Malay Peninsula |
| Suleiman the Magnificent | longest reigning sultan of OTM |
| 30 Years War | Spain v. England/Catholic v. Protestant |
| Bakufu System | Feudalism in Japan |
| Treaty of Westphalia | ended 30 Years War |
| The Vatican | Pope lives here |
| Zheng He | CHN Columbus |