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Vocab Chapters 16-17
Vocab Chapters
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Henry the Navigator | prince of Portugal and helper of promoting exploration by Portugese soldiers |
| Vasgo de Gama | Portugese sailor who sailed around Africa to reach India |
| Christopher Columbus | Italian sailor supported by the rulers of Spain, and reached the Americas in 1492 |
| Ferdinand Magellan | Portugese explorer who sailed for Spain, and whose crew was the first to circumnavigate the globe |
| circumnavigate | to go all the way around |
| Francis Drake | English sailor who was sent to the Americas to steal gold and silver from Spanish ships |
| Spanish Armada | a large fleet of Spanish ships that was defeated by England in 1588 |
| Columbian Exchange | the exchange of plants, animals, and ideas between the New World and the Old World |
| plantations | large farms |
| Bartolome de las Casas | Spanish priest who protested the terrible treatment of American Indians, and attempted to convert Indians to Christianity |
| racism | the belief that some people are better than others because racial traits, such as skin color |
| mercantilism | a system in which a government controls all economic activity in a country and its colonies to make the government stronger and richer |
| balance of trade | the relationship of goods imported to goods exported |
| cottage industry | a system in which people work at home to make a product |
| atlas | a collection of maps |
| capitalism | an economic system in which individuals and private businesseds run most industries |
| market economy | an economic system in which individuals decide what goods and services they will buy |
| primary | main, most important |
| acquire | to get |
| Enlightenment | a period during the 1600s and 1700s when reason was used to guide people's thoughts about society, politics, and philosophy |
| secular | non-religious |
| Voltaire | French philosopher who mocked government and religion in his writings |
| salon | a social gathering held to discuss ideas during the Enlightenment |
| Mary Wollstonecraft | British writer who argued that women should have the same rights as men |
| John Locke | Emglish philosopher who thought that government was a contract between the ruler and the people |
| natural rights | the belief that developed during the Enlightenment that people had certain rights, such as the right to life, liberty, and property. |
| Charles-Louis Montesquieu | French Enlightenment thinker who believed that government should be divided into separate branches to protect people's freedom |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | French philosopher who believed in popular sovereignty and the social contract between citizens and their governments |
| popular sovereignty | the Enlightenment idea that governments should express the will of the people |
| Benjamin Franklin | American colonial leader who argued that the British government had no right to tax the colonies because they had no representation in Parliament |
| Thomas Jefferson | American colonial leader and author of the Declaration of Independence who believed that Britain had no right to govern or impose taxes on the colonies |
| English Bill of Rights | a document approved in 1689 that listed rights for Parliament and the English people and drew on the princiles of Magna Carta |
| Declaration of Independence | a document written in 1776 that declared the American colonies' independence from British rule |
| Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen | a document written in France in 1789 that guaranteed specific freedoms for French citizens |
| contract | a binding legal agreement |
| ideals | ideas or goals that people try to live up to |
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