Chapter 10 Vocabulary
Published on Nov 22, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
RENAISSANCE
- Def: the rebirth of art and learning after the Middle Ages
- Ex: The works of Leonardo da Vinci.
Westernization
- Def: the spread of European ideas
- to the western world
- Ex: the Spanish converting the natives
- to the catholic religion.
ABSOLUTISM
- Def: a country's leader has unlimited power
- Ex: King Louis XIV of France stated "I am the state"
DIVINE RIGHT
- The belief that the rulers power is
- unquestionable because it comes from God.
- Ex: the mindset of an absolute monarch.
COMMERCIAL REVOLUTION
- Def: the rapid expansion of trade in
- Europe that started in the 16th century.
- Ex: the trade of recourses from the new
- world to the old world.
CAPITALISM
- Def: an economic system where
- all recourses are privately owned.
- Ex: a society based on private enterprise.
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SECULAR
- Def: non-religious ideas that are
- related to the concerns of the world.
- Ex: separation of church and state
CONQUISTADORS
- The Spanish conquerors of
- the American territories for
- Spain.
- Ex: the Spanish conquistadors
- that destroyed the Inca empire
MESTIZOS
- People who have both a
- native and European back ground.
- Ex: Many people living in South America
- today.
INFLATION
- Rising prices caused by an
- increase in money supplies.
- Ex: What happened in Germany
- after WWI.
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COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
- The transfer of plants ,animals ,
- and diseases between the
- eastern and western hemispheres
- Ex: the desiesess that came to the
- Americas from Spain.
GREAT DYING
- The devastation to the natives
- living in the Americas that was
- brought on by spanish diseases.
- Ex: small pox spreading to the
- Americas.
HUMANISM
- A philosophy that emphasizes
- the importance of the individual
REFORMATION
- A movment that started in the
- 16th and 17th centuries that
- created the Protestant religion
- and split the Catholic church.
SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
- A study of nature that went beyond
- religious teachings that started in
- the mid-1500s
ENLIGHTENMENT
- A movement in the 18th century
- that sought to apply scientific
- methods to the study of society
- and its problems
