UNIT 3 VOCAB

RENAISSANCE

• Ideas of art and literature
• Example: coming up with new ideas

ZHENG HE

• A voyager who launched seven expeditions for the Ming dynasty

COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE

• Movement of ideas, people, plants between the Americas and Europe

REFORMATION

• Movement for religious reform, leading to the founding of Christian churches that rejected the Pope's authority

ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE

• Captured Africans were transported across the Atlantic under horrific conditions then sold, and forced to work in the Americas in mines and plantations.

ENGLISH CIVIL WAR

• A conflict between the English parliament and Charles 1, which established the supremacy of parliament over the monarchy.

SIKHISM

• A non-violent monotheistic religion developed in India, whose beliefs blend elements of Hinduism and Islam.

LIMITED MONARCHY

• A system of government that emerged in England in which the monarch is made to share power with an elected parliament

MERCANTILISM

• An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more good that they bought.

ABSOLUTE MONARCHY

• A king or queen who had unlimited power and seeks to control all aspects of society.

GLORIOUS REVOLUTION

• 1688, a b,oddness revolt that overthrew the king of England and signed into law the English Bill of Rights Rights, granting their subjects certain rights.

CAPITALISM

• Economic system that includes private ownership and investment in businesses for profit. Also known as Free Market or Free enterprise.

OTTOMAN EMPIRE

• Gained control of existing land and sea trade routes between India and Asia, changed Constantinople to present day Istanbul.

SECULAR

• Concerned with worldly (non religious) rather than spiritual matters.
• So, it doesn't focus on anything religious.

PRINTING PRESS

• Johannes Gutenberg invented a machine with movable type in 1450 in Germany which later helped spread the ideas of reformation.