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AP World 514-540

Ap World History Key Terms #s 514-540

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Catholic Church and rich families paid artists to decorate walls/architecture/fountains/doors Patronage of the arts:
Gutenberg - led to increased literacy, writing in vernacular, takes power from the Church monopoly on literacy Printing Press:
heriditary leadership that controls executive, legislative, judicial decisions absolute monarchy:
member of the highest rank of the feudal Russian and Romanian aristocracy, second only to the ruling princes, from the 10th through the 17th century boyars:
several peoples living in the southern steppe regions of Eastern Europe and Asiatic Russia, famous for their self-reliance and military skill, particularly horsemanship Cossacks:
Spanish/Portuguese born in Latin America - on class scale, step below those actually born in Spain/Portugal creoles:
system of collection of young boys from conquered Christian lands by the Ottoman sultans as a form or regular taxation in order to build a loyal slave army and class of administrators: the Janissaries, or other servants such as tellak devshirme:
belief that God stays out of daily lives European belief by monarchs, aristocracy that their right to rule was legitimized/sanctioned by God,I was born into a monarchy, I must deserve it divine right:
Rangaku - method by which Japan kept abreast of Western technology and medicine in the period when the country was closed to foreigners, 1641–1853, because of the Tokugawa shogunate's policy of national isolation Dutch learning:
system of Spanish rule in Americas where Spanish landowners have right to forced labor for all indigenous people living on land grant encomienda:
attempt to apply logic from Scientific Revolution to human nature/government/economics Enlightenment:
meeting of French governing body called to find way of bringing in more income to the state, backfires and leads to French Revolution Estates-General:
1688 overthrow of King James in England Glorious Revolution:
former Eastern Orthodox church converted to a mosque, now converted into a museum, in the Turkish city of Istanbul Hagia Sophia:
Christian slave army that fought for Ottoman Empire - later developed monopoly on military and resisted technogical innovation Janissaries:
gold coin in Medieval Europe Mancus:
economic system where colonies market and resources for the sole use of mother country mercantilism:
American that is half indigenous person, half European mestizos:
Muslim dynasty that ruled India Mughal dynasty:
offspring of a European and an African mulatto:
a sovereign state where most of the citizens or subjects are united by language or common descent. is a unitary state with a single system of law and government. almost by definition a sovereign state: there is no external authority above the state itself nation-state:
attempt to control monarchy through parliament - first experiment in England - usually controlled budget which controlled/limited monarch parliamentary monarchy:
highest of Spanish colonial caste system - peninsular was a citizen born in the metropolitan part of the Spanish Empire. Also, they held high official power or positions. peninsulares:
practice of requiring women to cover their bodies so as to cover their skin and conceal their form, separates genders, some places more cultural than religious purdah:
founded by Manch clan from Northeast, not Qin, claimed mandate of heaven, eventually couldn't keep out Europeans, died Qing dynasty:
reestablishment of Christian rather than Muslim rule in the Iberian Peninsula, taking place between 718 and 1492 Reconquista:
right to exercise supreme political (e.g. legislative, judicial, and/or executive) authority over a geographic region, group of people, or oneself sovereignty:
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