RENAISSANCE

• revival or rebirth of culture and learning
• a real urban RENAISSANCE in many of our cities

Westernization

• Adoption of western traditions or techniques

absolutism

• monarchs or other ruler has unlimited power.

dive right

• right of rule derives directly from God.

Commercial Revolution

• expansion, colonialism, and mercantilism

Capitalism

• A way of orginazing an economy.

secular

• relating to the physical world, not to the spiritual world.

conquistadors

• one of the spanish conquerors from mexico and peru.

Mestizos

• a person of racially mixed ancestry.

inflation

• general level of prices for goods

columbian exchange

• exchange of animal, plants, human popluation, cultures.

GREAT DYING

• multiple infectious deseases and ferious deases

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