| A | B |
|---|
| Renaissance | period of time that focused on the individual and what they could do |
| secular | worldly |
| indulgences | selling of pardons for ones' sins by the Catholic Church |
| Protestants | those that protested the practices of the Catholic Church |
| circumnavigate | to travel around the world |
| mother country | a nation that colonizes other lands |
| colony | land that is controlled by another nation |
| Middle Passage | the leg of the Triangle Trade that brought Africans over to the Americas to become slaves |
| Triangle Trade | European network that involved trade between Africa, the Americas, and Europe |
| Columbian Exchange | the trading of products between the Old World and the New World |
| conquistador | Spanish conqueror |
| feudalism | system that creates a hierarchy that sets up the political, social, and economic structure of society |
| capitalism | economic system that is supposed to reward one based on their effort |
| socialism | economic system that promotes the sharing of resources among the people |
| communisn | political system that implements the ideals of socialism |
| absolute monarchy | one that controls all aspects of their people's lives |
| westernization | adopting western European ideals and ways of doing |
| bourgeoisie | the wealthy middle class |
| revolution | a new way of doing or thinking |
| mercenaries | hired soldiers |
| republic | a government based on the representation of people |
| estates | social levels in the French society |
| liberals | people who want a great amount of change |
| moderates | people who want some change in society |
| conservatives | people who do not want little to no change in society |
| coup d'etat | overthrowing of government by military |
| Continental System | economic system established by Napoleon to make Europe less reliant on Great Britain |
| ethnic-cleansing | mass killing of a group of people because of racial or ethnic identity |
| sweatshop | business that is operating with unsafe and unhealthy conditions for their workers |
| sphere of influence | the political and economic influence on another country by a country |
| protectorate | when a country helps maintain the safety of an area because of their interests not the people of that area's interest |
| economic imperialism | a business in another nation controls the economic and political system in another country |
| separation | when a nation breaks away from another |
| unification | when regions come together to become a larger region |
| state-building | when a nations adds on to what they have by taking in other regions |
