GLOBAL AGE VOCABULARY

RENAISSANCE

• Flowering of art and culture
• The Renaissance Age began in Italy in 1300s.

WESTERNIZATION

• The spread of ideas and values in Europe and Western world
• McDonalds in China and other countries across the world.

ABSOLUTISM

• System of rule opinion which a monarchy unlimited power
• Hilter used his power to cause the Holocaust.

DIVINE RIGHT

• Notion that a rulers power is derived by God
• China's Mandate of Heaven

COMMERCIAL REVOLUTION

• Rapid expansion of trade and commerce
• Trade and commerce between USA and other countries

CAPITALISM

• Economic system in which all resources and markets are privately owned
• Ex. Hing Kong have capitalist economy.

SECULAR

• Non religious, related to concerns of the world
• Ex. Politics are secular perspective on US issues.

CONQUISTADORS

• Spanish explorers of the Americas
• Ex. Conquistadors explored America for resources.

MESTIZOS

• Persons of mixed European and Native American
• Mestizos was a class below Europeans but higher than Native Indians.

INFLATION

• Rising prices, usually caused by an increase in money supply
• The low supply on oil caused an inflation on gas.

COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE

• Transfer of plants, animals, and disease
• Eastern and Western Hemispheres
• Ex. The trade between Europe and the Americans was very important.

GREAT DYING

• Devastating of American Indian populations by disease
• Ex. Europeans brought so many diseases causing the Great Dying.

HUMANISM

• Renaissance philosophy about the worth of an individual
• Ex. Society uses humanism to mold how people should look.

REFORMATION

• Reform movement that split the Catholic Church
• Ex. Pilgrims were Protestant, which was caused by the Reformation

SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION

• Shift in thinking about the study of nature
• Ex. The Big Bang theory was created during the Scientific Revolution

ENLIGHTENMENT

• 18th- century movement applying sceince to solve society and it's problems
• Ex. Enlightenment help explain thing in a logically way than religious.

Essential Question
I think ideas changed more that anything else; over the course of time people had their ideas advanced. People's ideas grew greater as each revolution or major event passed by causing inventions, theories, or even a revolution. Ideas help us grow more as we go on with life.