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Ch 16-17 Vocab
Chapters 16-17 key terms and people.
Question | Answer |
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Henry the Navigator | (1394-1460) Prince of Portugal,he helped promote exploration by Portuguese sailors. |
Vasco da Gama | Sailed around Africa and landed on India's coast. |
Christopher Columbus | (1451-1506) Italian sailor supported by the rulers of Spain, he reached the Americas in 1492. |
Ferdinand Magellan | (1480-1521)Portuguese sailor who sailed for Spain,his crew was the first to circumnavigate the world. |
Circumnavigate | To go all the way around. |
Francis Drake | (1540-1596) English sailor, he 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 | A priest who said that the Spanish should convert the American Indians by being kind and gentle. |
Racism | The belief that some people are better than others be cause of racial traits, |
Mercantilism | A system in which the government 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 family members worked in their homes to make part of a product. |
Atlas | Collection of maps. |
Capitalism | An economic system in which individuals and private businesses run most industries. |
Market Economy | Individuals decide what goods and services they will buy. |
Enlightenment | A period when reason was used to guide people thoughts about society, politics, and philosophy. |
Secular | Non-religious. |
Voltaire | (1694-1778) French philosopher, he mocked government and religion in his writings. |
Salon | A social gathering held to share ideas. |
Mary Wollstonecraft | (1759-1797) British Writer, she argued women should have the same rights as men. |
John Locke | (1632-1704) English philosopher he thought that government was a contract between the ruler and the people. |
Natural Rights | The belief that people had rights to life, liberty, and property. |
Charles-Louis Montesquieu | (1689-1755) French Enlightenment thinker he believed that the government should be spit to protect peoples freedom. |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau | (1712-1788) French philosopher, he believed in popular sovereignty and the social contract between citizens and the government. |
Popular Sovereignty | The idea that governments should express the will of the people. |
Benjamin Franklin | (1706-1790) American colonial leader, he argued that the British had no right to tax the colonist because the had no representative in Parliament. |
Thomas Jefferson | (1743-1826) American colonial leader and the author of the Declaration of Independence, he believed Britain had no right to govern colonies. |
English Bill of Rights | A document that listed rights for English people and Parliament. |
Declaration of Independence | A document that declared the American colonies independence from British rule. |
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen | A document written in France listing rights for French citizens. |