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| capital | Money that is used for investment. |
| capitalism | An economic system base on the private ownership of the means of production and distribution of goods. Also promotes a free market regulated by supply and demand. |
| Cash Crop Economy | an economic system based on the exportation of certain crops such as sugar, cotton, and coffee |
| centralized government | A government which controls all aspects of society from a central location or through a central system |
| collective farm | a government owned farms where peasants work on a quota system |
| colonization | a group of people moving from their homeland to a new area in large numbers; one country taking over another country and making it a colony. |
| Columbian exchange | the exchange of goods and other things, such as disease from the old world to the new world and back |
| command economy | an economic system controlled by strong, centralized government, which usually focuses on industrial goods with little attention paid to agriculture and consumer goods |
| commercial revolution | a dramatic change in the economy of europe at the end of the middle ages. it is characterized by an increase in towns and trade, the use of banks and credit, and the establishment of guilds to regulate quality and price |
| commune | a government owned farms where peasants work on a quota system |
| communism | a system of government in which a single, totalitarian, party hold power, it is characterized by state control of the economy, and restriction on personal freedoms. it was the first propsed by Karl Marx in the communist manifesto |
| corporation | a company with business dealings in many different areas |
| craftsman | a person who makes quality, practical or decorative goods |
| empire | a very large and powerful industrial organization |
| enlightenment | a movment in the 18th century that stressed the importance of reason and science in philosophy and the study of human society. |
| estates | class system in France before the French Revolution. There were three estates: first estate was clergy; second was nobility; and third was peasants, merchants, and townspeople. |
| estates general | the legislative body of france, composed of representatives from the three estates which are clergy in the first estate, nobles in the second estate, and peasants in the third estate. Each estate is entitled to one vote on legislative matters. The estates general was never as strong as the British Parliament of the American Congress |
| export | the sending of goods to another country for sale or trade |
| factory | a central location where goods are manufacured on a large scale |
| French Revolution | political revolution in France starting in 1789 that brought about many changes in France, the revolution ultimately ended with a dictatorship under Napolean Bonaparte before his defeat by the combined powers of Europe |
