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world history A exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Job Specialization | individuals began to specialize in certain jobs |
| monotheism | the israelites, believing that there was only one god |
| merchant | lowest status, in market towns and cities |
| The Holy Land | jerusalem and other places in palestine where christians believe jesus lived and preached |
| black plague | also called the black death, disease caused by rats a person that had the plague would die within weeks |
| inflation | rapid rise of prices |
| renaissance | the time of creativity and great change in many areas political, social, economic, and cultural |
| patron | financial supporter of the arts |
| monarchy | a government in which a hereditary ruler exercises central power |
| scientific method | required scientists to collect and accurately measure data |
| conquistadors | or conquerors who soon arrived in the americas |
| absolute monarchy | ruler with complete authority over the government and lives of the peoplehe or she governs,a community with absolute monarchy, has a lot of rules |
| social contract | an agreement by which people gave up their freedom to a powerful government in order to avoid chaos |
| philosophes | a group of enlightenment thinkers, their ideas spread beyond france and europe |
| federal republic | government in which power is divided between the national or federal government and the states |
| debt | an amount of money ,service, or an item of property that is owed to somebody |
| jacobins | a member of a radical political club during the french revolution |
| guillotine | device used during the region of terror to execute thousands by beheading |
| social classes | a broard group in society having common economic, cultrual, or political status |
| public works | strong rulers also ordered vast public works to be built |
| pictograph | a simple drawing that looks like the object it represents |
| pope | head of the roman cathlic church |
| epidemic | outbreak of a rapidly spreading disease |
| dark ages | the time of the crusades and the time of the black death |
| humanism | an intellectual movement at the heart of the renaissance that focused on education and the classics. |
| the prince | a book written by machiavelli |
| aristocracy | government headed by a privileged minority or upper class |
| triangle trade | colonial trade routes among europe and its colonies the west indies and africa in which goods were exchanged for slaves |
| immunity | natrual protection resistance |
| enlightenment | cured smallpox , new economic thinking, new government |
| leviathan | a book written by thomas hobbes, absolute monarchy |
| boston massacre | when american people threw snowballs at the british and the british killed them |
| bastille | fortress in paris used as a prison, french revolution began when parisians stored it in |
| conservative | british party |
| hierarchy | system of ranking groups |
| civilization | a complex highly organized social order |
| cultural diffusion | the spread of ideas customs and technologies from one people to another |
| clergy | the body of people who conduct christain services |
| pandemic | spread of a disease across a large area country continent or the entire world |
| individualism | Recognizing individual efforts and the concept of becoming known beyond the local area began to grow during the Renaissance. |
| indulgences | in the roman cathlic church pardon for sins commited during a persons lifetime |
| theocracy | government run by religous leaders |
| mercantillism | policy by which a nation sought to export more than it imported in order to build its supply of gold and silver |
| columbian exchange | the global exchange of goood ideas plants and animals and disease that began with columbus exploration of the americas |
| censorship | restriction on access to ideas and information |
| estates | social classes |
| tennis court oath | famous oath made on a tennis court by members of the third estate in france |
| artisan | a skilled craftsperson |
| empire | a group of states or territories controlled by one ruler |
| crusades | a series of wars from the 1000s through 1200s in which european christains tried to win control of the holy land from muslims |
| heliocentric theory | based on the belief that the sun is the center of the universe |
| capitalism | economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for profit |
| middle passage | the leg of the triangular trade route on which slaves were transported from africa to the americas |
| salon | informal social gathering at which writters artists philosophes and others exchanged ideas |
| popular sovereignty | basic principle of the american system of government which asserts that the people are the source of any and all governmental power and governmtent can exist only with the cosent of the governed |
| deficit spending | situation in which a government spends more money than it takes in |
| reign of terror | time period during the french revolution from september 1793 to july 1794 when people in france were arrested for not supporting the revolution and many were executed |
| radicals | thoes who favor extrem changes |
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