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Unit 4 Vocabulary

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UNIT 4 VOCABULARY

Renaissance:
The forms of art and culture beginning in Italy in the 1300s transforming Europe into a more modern world.
They also encourage sea travel was the development of seafaring skills & technologies.

Westernization:
The influence with ideas, customs and values in Europe and the Western world.
The colony of Macao that Portuguese established in 1513 it served as a primary entry for trade.

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Absolutism:
Unrestricted power in the government which the system is complete.
Louis XIV king of France embodied the principle of absolutism

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Divine Right:
The right of rule derives directly from god and not from the people.
China the rulers had long claimed the Mandate of Heaven to support their rule.

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Commercial Revolution:
The rapid expansion of business that transformed Europe in the 1600s .
Commercial ReVolution helped European nations gain dominance on world stage.

Capitalism:
An economic system in which distribution, production, & exchange of wealth is made & maintained by private individuals.
Britain & Holland, devised new methods of business and banking.

Secular:
Not connected with religion.
Ideas & culture were changing the ideas ranged from new religious to secular principles.

Conquistadors:
One of the Spanish conquerors.
Small armies of Spanish conquistadors defeated the Aztec and Inca empires.

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Mestizos:
A person mixed ancestry mixed with American Indian & Europe.
Mixed race descendants of Europeans.

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Inflation:
Rise in general level of prices increase in volume of $ & resulting loss of value.
The countries invested wisely, such as Britain & Holland, prospered despite inflation.

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Columbian Exchange:
Transfer of plants, animals, & diseases from different regions.
The hemisphere known as the Colombian exchange.

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Great Dying:
Spread of America transferred form Europe.
People died by viruses spread from community to call the Great Dying.

Humanism:
Renaissance visualizing the value of itself & comparing the religious.
Any system made of thought principles or culture.

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Reformation:
Religious movement in 16th century object reform Roman Catholic Church.
Religious movement that split the Catholic Church & gave birth to Protestant religion.

Scientific Revolution:
The knowledge of studying outside world beginning in 1500s.
Later it changed to religious teachings.

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Enlightenment:
Live in spiritual enlightenment.
New age learning about the problems and nature figuring how to change their infrastructure.

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Essential Question:
I think what changed the world more between 1400 & 1800 was different ideas. The renaissance always expanded the ideas along with the connections such as empires, & culture. The movement of ideas and cultural diffusion made our world transform if not we wouldn't have nothing.

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